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 --
Whipping boy / Pam Noles --
Old flesh song / Ini Aanu Zoboi --
Whispers in the dark / Walter Mosley --
Aftermoon / Tananarive Due --
Voodoo Vincent and the astrostoriograms / Tyehimba Jess --
The binary / John Cooley --
BLACKout / Jill Robinson --
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.