Stories[edit]

• Samuel R. Delany, "Aye, and Gomorrah..."
• Octavia E. Butler, "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"
• Charles R. Saunders, "Gimmile's Songs"
• Steven Barnes, "The Woman in the Wall"
• Tananarive Due, "Like Daughter"
• Jewelle Gomez, "Chicago 1927"
• George S. Schuyler, "Black No More" (excerpt from the novel)
• Ishmael Reed, "Future Christmas" (novel excerpt)
• Kalamu ya Salaam, "Can You Wear My Eyes"
• Robert Fleming, "The Astral Visitor Delta Blues"
• Nalo Hopkinson, "Ganger (Ball Lightning)"
• W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Comet"
• Linda Addison, "Twice, at Once, Separated"
• Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Sister Lilith"
• Evie Shockley, "separation anxiety"
• Leone Ross, "Tasting Songs"
• Nalo Hopkinson, "Greedy Choke Puppy"
• Amiri Baraka, "Rhythm Travel"
• Kalamu ya Salaam, "Buddy Bolden"
• Akua Lezli Hope, "The Becoming"
• Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Goophered Grapevine"
• Nisi Shawl, "At the Huts of Ajala"
• Henry Dumas, "Ark of Bones"
• Tony Medina, "Butta's Backyard Barbecue"
• Kiini Ibura Salaam, "At Life's Limits"
• Anthony Joseph, "The African Origins of UFOs" (excerpt from the novel)
• Derrick Bell, "The Space Traders"
• Darryl A. Smith, "The Pretended"
• Ama Patterson, "Hussy Strutt"

Essays[edit]

• Samuel R. Delany, "Racism and Science Fiction"
• Charles R. Saunders, "Why Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction"
• Walter Mosley, "Black to the Future"
• Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, "Yet Do I Wonder"
• Octavia E. Butler, "The Monophobic Response"