Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the past 30 years of Tate's influential work. Above all, Tate demonstrates through his signature mix of vernacular poetics and cultural theory and criticism why visionary black artists, intellectuals, aesthetics, philosophies, and politics matter to twenty-first century America.