The tale of Gorgik / Samuel Delaney --
Meditations on history / Sherley Anne Williams --
Damballah / John Edgar Wideman --
Louisiana: 1850 / Jewelle Gomez --
Remember him a outlaw / Alexis DeVeaux --
Long distances / Jewell Parker Rhodes --
After dreaming of President Johnson / Howard Gordon --
Neighbors / Diane Oliver --
The witness / Ann Petry --
Steady going up / Maya Angelou --
The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara --
Kiswana Browne / Gloria Naylor --
Second-hand man / Rita Dove --
Crusader Rabbit / Jess Mowry --
Silences / Helen Elaine Lee --
Proper library / Carolyn Ferrell --
Diary of an African nun / Alice Walker --
In a house of wooden monkeys / Shay Youngblood --
Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses / Joyce Carol Thomas --
Tell me how long the train's been gone / James Baldwin --
By the way of morning fire / Michael Weaver --
China / Charles Johnson --
Blackness / Jamaica Kincaid --
Lost in the city / Edward P. Jones --
Run, mourner, run / Randall Kenan --
Blues for Little Prez / Sam Greenlee --
Ma'Dear / Terry McMillan --
Transaction / Kelvin Christopher James --
A loaf of bread / James Alan McPherson --
Backwacking, a plea to the senator / Ralph Ellison --
The woman who would eat flowers / Colleen McElroy --
And love them? / Thomas Glave --
An area in the cerebral hemisphere / Clarence Major --
Oh she gotta head fulla hair / Ntozake Shange --
That place / Carolivia Herron --
New York day women / Edwidge Danticat.