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Describes the activities that a community of people engage in all week long as they wait for Sunday, the best day of all.

As a brother and sister head for the market for birthday party supplies, they sing a song describing the city sights, sounds, and smells they pass along the way.

Elijah Breeze, a ten-year-old African American boy, moves back to New York City with his mother and attends a summer baseball camp as he tries to make new friends and adapt to urban ways.

As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss cross steps and backwards steps.

Four African-American girls slip out of their housing project and spend a day playing together before returning home with a gift for the friend who was not able to join them.

Marcus, dismayed by the things he sees in his urban neighborhood while on his way to get a haircut, changes his perspective after hearing his friends in the barbershop talk about the many good things in their African-American community.

Inner-city teenagers find a suitcase full of cocaine and must decide whether to sell it and take the opportunities the money would provide or to destroy it to keep the drug from poisoning their community.

A child observes the changing sights and sounds of each new season in the city.

A young boy finds a way to give his family the Christmas tree they can't afford.

As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to crisscross steps and backwards steps.

The story of a African-American boy growing to manhood in a small Kansas town.

"Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs"--Provided by publisher.

While living in a housing project in Oakland, California, thirteen-year-old Kisha joins a track team which helps her discover that she can be a winner.

Contains forty-nine short stories of and by black, tan, and sand-colored people living in the cities of contemporary America and dealing with everyday emotions of love and lust, joy and hopelessness.

Every Sunday after church, CJ and his grandma ride the bus across town.