42.3-4 Essays on Martin Robison Delany, Ralph Ellison, Jessie Fauset, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Harriet Jacobs, James Weldon Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Nella Larsen, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Ann Allen Shockley, The Wayans Brothers, The American Negro Theatre, The Black Arts Movement, Black Persona Poetry, and World War I and Lynching Narratives. FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS from Eric Gardner and Philip C. Kolin. Interview with Edward P. Jones. Poetry by Denise Miller, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Crystal Simone Smith, Jonathan C. Smith, and Reggie Scott Young.
Back to the Order Form

42.2 Essays on Paul Beatty and Darius James, Henry Francis Downing, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Danzy Senna, and Natasha Trethewey. Meditation by Thomas Glave. Interview with Colleen J. McElroy. Poetry and Fiction by Wanda Coleman, Richard Fewell, Angel Green, Lena Bezawork Grönlund, Trilby Kent, Raina J. León, Shane McCrae, William Miller, and Princess Perry.
Back to the Order Form

42.1 Representing Segregation Special Issue
Back to the Order Form

41.4 Post Soul Aesthetic Special Issue
Back to the Order Form

41.2 Paul Laurence Dunbar Special Issue
Back to the Order Form

41.1 Essays on AAR on 40, Henry Box Brown, Octavia Butler, Lucy Delaney, W. E. B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison & Ishmael Reed, Late 19^th- and Early 20^th-Century Fiction. Interview with Billie Allen. Poetry by William J. Harris
Back to the Order Form

40.4 Curse of Caste Special Issue: Essays on 19^th-Century Seduction Novels, Black Women's Poetry of the Civil War Era, The Christian Recorder, Julia C. Collins, Early 20^th-Century Children's Literature, and Frances E. W. Harper. BACK TALK from Rafia Zafar. FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS from Frances Smith Foster. Poetry by Melba Joyce Boyd.
Back to the Order Form

40.3 Essays on Bette Davis and the Burbanking of Hollywood, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Sally Hemings, Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Jacob Lawrence, Ann Petry, Slave Narratives & City-Mysteries Novels, and August Wilson.
Back to the Order Form

40.2 Essays on Frederick Douglass, Ernest Gaines, Rebecca Gilman, Jupiter Hammon, Harriet Jacobs, James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Colson Whitehead. Tom Dent Collective with contributions from Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Lorenzo Thomas, Quo Vadis Gex Breaux, and Kalamu ya Salaam. BACK TALK from Thomas Glave. Fiction by Ron Frazer. Poetry by Walter Blackwell, Sr., and Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III).
Back to the Order Form

40.1 A Tribute to Nellie Y. McKay, Essays on Michelle Cliff, Sutton E. Griggs, Nalo Hopkinson, Toni Morrison, Richard Bruce Nugent, Fran Ross, Danzy Senna, and The Harlem Renaissance.
Back to the Order Form

39.4 Essays on Beloved, Black Gothic, Black Masculinity, Hip-Hop Metaphors, The Living Is Easy, and The Loeb and Leopold Case. FORGOTTEN MANUSCRIPTS from David G. Nicholls. Fiction by Angel Y. Green.
Back to the Order Form

39.3 Essays on Ralph Ellison, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, and US-Canadian Slave Narratives. BACK TALK from Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Interview with Lloyd Richards. Fiction by Anton Nimblett.
Back to the Order Form

39.1-2 Essays on James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Wells Brown, Contemporary Black Cinema, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, and Eugene O'Neill. Interviews with Pinkie Gordon Lane and Sonia Sanchez. Fiction by William Henry Lewis. Poetry by A. B. Spellman.
Back to the Order Form

38.4 Essays on James Baldwin, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Spike Lee, Nathaniel Mackey, John Marrant, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Julia Mood Peterkin, and Dorothy West. Interview with Tananarive Due. Fiction by Rochelle Spencer. Poetry by Colleen J. McElroy.
Back to the Order Form

38.3 Essays on Octavia Butler, Countée Cullen, Julie Dash, Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar Micheaux, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Fictions of Lynching, Passing Narratives, and Strikebreaking Tales. Interview with William Branch. Fiction by Richard Fewell. Poetry by Wanda Coleman and Gale Jackson.
Back to the Order Form

38.2 Essays on Gwendolyn Brooks, John Coltrane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Franklin, Pauline Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Frank J. Webb. Poetry by L. Teresa Church, Taban lo Liyong, Lenard D. Moore, and Evie Shockley.
Back to the Order Form

38.1 Essays on The Early Jazz Era, Joel Chandler Harris, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Jacobs, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, and Shaft & Shaft 2000. Fiction by Stephanie Dickinson, Amina Gautier, and Patrick Lohier. Poetry by Ken Champion, Ariono-jovan Labu, Robert Nazarene, and Carolyn Beard Whitlow.
Back to the Order Form

37.4 Essays on Arna Bontemps, Black Women and the Blues, Charles W. Chesnutt, Contemporary Black Women Dramatists, Frederick Douglass, Frances E. W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, and Toni Morrison. Fiction by Doreen Baingana. Poetry by Jeffery Renard Allen, Lenard D. Moore, Cherise Pollard, Patrick Sylvain, Valorie Thomas, Stephanie Powell Watts, and James R. Whitley.
Back to the Order Form

37.2-3 Amiri Baraka Double Issue: Poetry by Amiri Baraka. An interview with Baraka. Essays analyzing Baraka's work.
Back to the Order Form

37.1 Essays on Charles W. Chesnutt, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Anna Deavere Smith, August Wilson, and Richard Wright.
Back to the Order Form

36.4 Essays on Gwendolyn Brooks, the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Hayden, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Wole Soyinka. An interview with Alexs Pate. Poetry by Edward Bartók-Baratta, Robert Coles, James R. Lee, Herbert Woodward Martin, Afaa M. Weaver, and Grace Xanthos.
Back to the Order Form

36.3 Essays on Toni Cade Bambara, The Christian Recorder, Leon Forrest, Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, Oscar Micheaux, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, and Sherley Anne Williams. An interview with Quincy Troupe. Poetry by Charles Curtis Blackwell, Myronn Hardy, Sterling D. Plumpp, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.
Back to the Order Form

36.2 Essays on Black Speech Acts, Rita Dove, Ralph Ellison, Arthur Flowers, Chester Himes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison. An interview with Thomas Allen Harris. Poetry by Constance Quarterman Bridges, Mel Donalson, Duriel E. Harris, William Miller, Bob Slaymaker, and Nagueyalti Warren.
Back to the Order Form

36.1 Essays on Black Comic Book Characters, Charles Chesnutt, Ernest J. Gaines, Toni Morrison, Albion Tourgée, and Phillis Wheatley. Fiction by Jeffery Renard Allen, Eugenia Collier, Raki Jones, Olympia F. Vernon, and Solon Timothy Woodward.
Back to the Order Form

35.4 Essays on Ralph Ellison, Angelo Herndon, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, Wallace Thurman, Harriet Wilson, and Richard Wright. Fiction by David Pilgrim.
Back to the Order Form

35.3  Essays on Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Lorraine Hansberry, Pauline E. Hopkins, August Wilson, and Richard Wright. An interview with Reginald McKnight.
Back to the Order Form

35.2 Essays on Adrienne Kennedy, Spike Lee, Toni Morrison, and Frank J. Webb. An interview with Kevin Willmott.
Back to the Order Form

34.1 Essays on Black Film, Rita Dove, Frances E. W. Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Keckley, Paule Marshall, and Toni Morrison. An interview with Edward P. Jones. Fiction by Reggie Young.
Back to the Order Form

33.4 Essays on Folkloristics, Lynching Drama, Robbie McCauley, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright. Interviews with Clifton Anderson, and Nalo Hopkinson. Fiction by Malon Edwards and Nalo Hopkinson. Poetry by Anjail Rashida Ahmad, nia akimbo, Janice Harrington, Wendell W. Ottley, III, Patrick Sylvain, and Bobbie Wallace Wright.
Back to the Order Form

33.3 Essays on W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Hayden, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, The Passing Novel, Assotto Saint, and Richard Wright. An interview with Leon Forrest. Poetry by Rachel M. Harper, Terrance Hayes, and Mary Weems.
Back to the Order Form

33.2 Essays on Ira Aldridge, James Baldwin, Charles Burnett, Charles Chesnutt, David Haynes, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Clarence Major, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright.
Back to the Order Form

33.1 Essays on James Baldwin, Frances Harper, W. D. Howells, Harriet Jacobs, June Jordan, Milestone Comics, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright. Poetry by Salah M. Abood, Stephen T. Booker, Edward B. Bynum, Gabrielle Hooks, Erren G. Kelly, Reginald S. Lewis, Linwood M. Ross, Jennifer E. Smith, Peggy Ann Tartt, Afaa M. Weaver, Bro. Yao, C. B. Weatherford, Ahmos Zu-Bolton.
Back to the Order Form

32.4 Essays on James Baldwin, Michelle Cliff, Countée Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Rudolph Fisher, Pauline Hopkins, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, John Wideman, and the art of the Harlem Renaissance.
Back to the Order Form

32.3  Essays on Marita Bonner, Pauline Hopkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and filmmaker John Stahl. An interview with novelist Brent Wade. Fiction by Princess J. L. Perry.
Back to the Order Form

32.2  Essays on James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Jacobs, Spike Lee, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Charlotte Watson Sherman, Jean Toomer, August Wilson, and "black writer ambivalence."
Back to the Order Form

31.4 Contemporary Theatre Issue: Nineteen essays, including studies of the work of Pearl Cleage, Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, and George Wolfe; interview with Woodie King, Jr. A play by Kym Moore; play and book reviews.
Back to the Order Form

31.3 Ten essays on Sterling A. Brown and essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Richard Wright. Fiction by Ricardo Cortez Cruz.
Back to the Order Form

30.4 Charles Johnson Issue:  13 essays; interview by Michael Boccia; illustrations.
Back to the Order Form

30.3 Essays on Toni Cade Bambara, the Black Church, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and filmmaker King Vidor. Fiction by Randy F. Nelson.
Back to the Order Form

30.2 Essays on David Bradley, Jessie Fauset, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, and Richard Wright. An interview with Lani Guinier. Poetry by Alvin Aubert, Christopher Gilbert, Gary Lilley, minkah makalani, and JoAnne McFarland.
Back to the Order Form

30.1 Essays on James Weldon Johnson, visual artist Glenn Ligon, Toni Morrison, Negro Story magazine, Phillis Wheatley, and August Wilson. Fiction by David Wright.
Back to the Order Form

29.4 A remembrance of James Baldwin by novelist Lesley Conger; 3 essays on Charles Johnson, and essays on black theater in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. An interview with novelist Jewell Parker Rhodes. Poetry by Janice Mautner, Linwood M. Ross, and Michael S. Weaver.
Back to the Order Form

29.3 Three essays on Toni Morrison, and essays on actor Charles Gilpin, Gayl Jones, and Carl Van Vechten. An interview with novelist Randall Kenan. Fiction by Portia James. Poetry by Stephen Tood Booker, Horace Coleman, Robert Fleming, John R. Keene, and Eric Wise.
Back to the Order Form

29.1 Essays on David Bradley, filmmaker Julie Dash, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker. Fiction by Opal J. Moore. Poetry by Deborah A. Bennett, James A. Emanuel, Diane Goodman, Bruce A. Jacobs, Bill Keith, and Natasha Tretheway.
Back to the Order Form

28.4 Essays on slave narrator Ellen Craft, Chester Himes, Hip Hop, Langston Hughes, Gayl Jones, the Harlem Renaissance, Toni Morrison, and black minstrelsy; story by Richard C. Zimler. Poetry by Earl S. Braggs, Joanne M. Braxton, Cayle, Joy Jones, Ruth Allen Kocher, and Herbert Woodward Martin.
Back to the Order Form

28.3 Essays on Ira Aldridge, Samuel R. Delany, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Richard Wright. An interview with novelist Nathan Heard. Fiction by Steven Noel, Randy Ross, and Ann Allen Shockley.
Back to the Order Form

28.2 Black Women's Culture Issue: Essays on Octavia E. Butler, Gayl Jones, Zora Neale Hurston, Adrienne Kennedy, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Sherley Anne Williams. An interview with Michelle Cliff. Fiction by Sheryl T. Hawkins and Melanie A. Rawls.
Back to the Order Form

28.1 Clarence Major Issue: Seven essays on Major's fiction, poetry, and visual art. An interview with Major and a checklist of his books. Five poems, two stories, and an essay by Major, as well as a portfolio of his paintings.
Back to the Order Form

27.3 Women's Culture Issue: Essays on Toni Cade Bambara, Angelina Weld Grimké, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Harriet Wilson, and Sherley Anne Williams. An interview with filmmaker Carmen Coustaut. Poetry by d. Trinidad hanks, Monifa Atungaye Love, and Carole B. Weatherford.
Back to the Order Form

27.2 Black South Issue, Part 2: Essays on Margaret Walker Alexander, Arna Bontemps, Ernest J. Gaines, Zora Neale Hurston, Albert Murray, and Alice Walker; Raymond Andrews and Kiarri T. H. Cheatwood discuss Black South culture; 7 stories, featuring work by Louis Edwards and Alden Reimonenq; Interviews with visual artist John Scott and authors Margaret Walker Alexander and Tom Dent.
Back to the Order Form

27.1 Black South Issue, Part 1: Ten essays on Black South culture, featuring Pearl Cleage, Tom Dent, Jacquie Jones, and Arthenia Bates Millican. Plays by Chakula cha Jua, Levi Frazier, Robert Earl Price, and Kalamu ya Salaam. A poetry section featuring essays by Alvin Aubert and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., as well as the work of 16 poets.
Back to the Order Form

26.4 An interview with Houston A. Baker, Jr. Essays on African American critical discourse, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, the Chicago Riot of 1919, Mary Seacole, and James Corrothers. Fiction by Anthony Grooms.
Back to the Order Form

26.3 Fiction Issue: Essays on Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Ann Petry, Alice Walker, and Angelina Weld Grimké. An interview with John Edgar Wideman. Fiction by Lynn Marie and Reggie Young.
Back to the Order Form

25.3 Literature of Jazz Issue: Featuring Scott DeVeaux's "Jazz Historiography," winner of the Irvin Lowens Award as the best article on American music for 1991. Essays on jazz criticism, jazz photography, jazz poetry, and jazz fiction. A bibliography of printed jazz music.
Back to the Order Form

23.3 Poetry Issue: James Cunningham on Sterling Plumpp; Tony Magistrale on Wanda Coleman; Erskine Peters on the Spirituals. Essays on Jean Toomer, Phillis Wheatley, and painter Jacob Lawrence. An Alvin Aubert interview and bibliography. New work by 29 poets, including Amiri Baraka, Gerald Barrax, Pinkie Gordon Lane, and Clarence Major.
Back to the Order Form

22.4 Wole Soyinka Issue, Part 2: Ten essays about and two interviews with Soyinka. Contributors include guest editor H. L. Gates, Anthony Appiah, and Ishmael Reed.
Back to the Order Form

22.3 Wole Soyinka Issue, Part 1: Two Soyinka addresses and 10 essays on Soyinka's work. Contributors include guest editor H. L. Gates, F. Odun Balogun, Femi Euba, Willifred Feuser, and Bernth Lindfors.
Back to the Order Form

21.1-2 Forum on black portraiture in the arts (Part 1), featuring section editor H. L. Gates, Ishmael Reed, and Barbara Smith; John M. Reilly on John A. Williams; Wilson J. Moses on black literary and intellectual life at the turn of the 20th century. Essays on Peter Abrahams, William Attaway, Marita Bonner, Zora Neale Hurston, Paule Marshall, Kea Tawana, and Phillis Wheatley. Fiction by and bibliography about writer Ann Allen Shockley [counts as 2 issues].
Back to the Order Form

20.3 Poetry Issue: An interview with Rita Dove and Dove's story "The First Suite." An autobiographical sketch by artist Elton Fax. New work by 20 poets, including Thadious M. Davis and Pinkie Gordon Lane.
Back to the Order Form