Contents						xix

AMIRI BARAKA (LEROI JONES) (1934-	)		1856
In Memory of Radio					1857
The Bridge						1858
Notes for a Speech					1859
An Agony, As Now					1860
A Poem for Democrats					1861
A Poem for Speculative Hipsters				1862
A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand		1862
A Poem for Half-White College Students			1863
Biography						1864


SONIA SANCHEZ (1934-	)				1865
the final solution/					1866
to blk/record/buyers					1867
FROM 	right on: wite america
	3.						1867
young/black/girl					1868
womanhood						1870
Masks							1872
"Just Don't Never Give Up on Love"			1873


JUNE JORDAN (1936-2002)					1875
FROM	Things That I Do in the Dark
	All the World Moved				1877
	In Memoriam: Martin Luther King,Jr.		1878
Meta-Rhetoric						1879
FROM 	Naming Our Own Destiny
	Poem about My Rights				1879
	Poem for Guatemala				1882
FROM 	Technical Difficulties
	A New Politics of Sexuality			1884

NIKKI GIOVANNI (1943-	)				1887
Word Poem						1889
Nikki-Rosa						1890
Poem for Black Boys					1890
For Saundra						1891
Beautiful Black Men					1892