Foreword / Ameer Baraka -- Essays: The development of the black revolutionary 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 -- 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 (Barbara Jones, slave name); 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Afterword: And shine swam on / Larry Neal.
