[I]. ESSAYS. The development of the black revolutinary artist / James T. Stewart

Reclaiming the lost African heritage / John Henrik Clarke

African responses to Malcolm X / Leslie Alexander Lacy

Revolutionary nationalism and the Afro-American / Harold Cruse

The new breed / Peter Labrie

Dynamite growing out of their skulls / Calvin C. Hernton

Black power - a scientific concept whose time has come / James Boggs

Toward Black liberation / Stokely Carmichael

The screens / C. E. Wilson

Travels in the South: a cold night in Alabama / William Mahoney

The tide inside, it rages! / Lindsay Barrett

Not just whistling Dixie / A. B. Spellman

The Fellah, the chosen ones, the guardian / David Llorens

Brainwashing of black men's minds / Nathan Hare. [2]. POETRY. Charles Anderson

Richard W. Thomas

Ted Wilson

James T. Stewart

Calvin C. Hernton

Sun-Ra

Lethonia Gee

K. William Kgositsile

David Henderson

A. B. Spellman

Sonia Sanchez

Q. R. Hand

Ron Welburn

Joe Goncalves

Marvin E. Jackmon

James Danner

Al Fraser

Lance Jeffers

Walt Delegall

Welton Smith

LeRoi Jones

Barbara Simmons

Larry Neal

Hart Leroi Bibbs

Rolland Snellings

Carol Freeman

Kirk Hall

Edward S. Spriggs

Henry Dumas

Reginald Lockett

Odaro

S. E. Anderson

Clarence Franklin

Jay Wright

Yusuf Rahman

Rudy Bee Graham

Lefty Sims

Lebert Bethune

Yusef Iman

Norman Jordan

Stanley Crouch

Frederick J. Bryant, Jr.

Sam Cornish

Clarence Reed

Albert E. Haynes, Jr.

Lorenzo Thomas

Gaston Neal

L. Goodwin

Ray Johnson

Bob Bennett

Ahmed Legraham Alhamisi

D. L. Graham

Victor Hernandez Cruz

Jacques Wakefield

Kuwasi Balagon

Bobb Hamilton. [3]. FICTION. Fon / Henry Dumas

A love song for seven little boys called; Sam / C. H. Fuller, Jr.

Not your singing, dancing spade / Julia Fields

That she would dance no more / Jean Wheeler Smith

Life with red top / Ronald L. Fair

Sinner man where you gonna run to? / Larry Neal

Ain't that a groove / Charlie Cobb. [4]. DRAMA. We own the night / Jimmy Garrett

Flowers for the trashman / Marvin E. Jackmon

Black ice / Charles Patterson

Notes from a savage god / Ronald Drayton

Nocturne on the Rhine / Ronald Drayton

Madheart / LeRoi Jones

Prayer meeting or the first militant minister / Ben Caldwell

How do you do / Ed Bullins

The leader / Joseph White

The suicide / Carol Freeman. [5]. AN AFTERWORD. And Shine swam on / Larry Neal.