Fiction. Sister Lilith / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers -- The comet / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Chicage 1927 / Jewelle Gomez -- Separation anxiety / Evie Shockley -- Tasting songs / Leone Ross -- Can you wear my eyes / Kalamu ya Salaam -- Like daughter / Tananarive Due -- Greedy choke puppy / Nalo Hopkinson -- Rhythm travel / Amiri Baraka -- Buddy Bolden / Kalamu ya Salaam -- Aye, and Gomorrah-- / Samuel R. Delany -- Ganger (ball lightning) / Nalo Hopkinson -- The becoming / Akua Lezli Hope -- The goophered grapevine / Charles W. Chestnutt -- The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler --Twice, at once, separated / Linda Addison -- Gimmile's songs / Charles R. Saunders -- At the huts of Ajala / Nisi Shawl -- The woman in the wall / Steven Barnes -- Ark of bones / Henry Dumas -- Butta's backyard barbecue / Tony Medina -- At life's limits / Kiini Ibura Salaam -- The astral visitor Delta blues / Robert Fleming -- The space traders / Derrick Bell -- The pretended / Darryl A. Smith -- Hussy Strutt / Ama Patterson ; Essays. Racism and science fiction / Samuel R. Delany -- Why Blacks should read (and write) science fiction / Charles R. Saunders -- Black to the future / Walter Mosley -- Yet do I wonder / Paul D. Miller -- The monophobic response / Octavia E. Butler.