Fiction. Ibo landing / ihsan bracy
The quality of sand / Cherene Sherrard
Yahimba's choice / Charles R. Saunders
The glass bottle trick / Nalo Hopkinson
Desire / Kiini Ibura Salaam
Recovery from a fall / David Findlay
Anansi meets Peter Parker at the Taco Bell on Lexington / Douglas Kearney
The magical Negro / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Jesus Christ in Texas / W.E.B. DuBois
Will the circle be unbroken? / Henry Dumas
'Cause Harlem needs heroes / Kevin Brockenbrough
Old flesh song / Ini Aanu Zoboi
Whispers in the dark / Walter Mosley
Aftermoon / Tananarive Due
Voodoo Vincent and the astrostoriograms / Tyehimba Jess
Sweet dreams / Charles Johnson
Buying primo time / Wanda Coleman
Corona / Samuel R. Delaney
Excerpt from Mindscape / Andrea Hairston
Trance / Kalamu ya Salaam
Essays. The second law of thermodynamics: transcription of a panel at the 1997 Black speculative fiction writer's conference held at Clark Atlanta University / Jewelle Gomez
Her pen could fly: remembering Virginia Hamilton / Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Celebrating the alien: the politics of race and species in the juveniles of Andre Norton / Carol Cooper.
