Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Editors’ Introduction
The Black Arts Movement
Section I. Theory/Criticism
Introduction to Theory/Criticism
Poetry and Black Liberation: Freedom’s Furious Passions
DA-DUM-DUN: A BAM Triumvirate of Conch/Us/Nest: Miles Davis, Henry Dumas & Katherine Dunham in East St. Louis, Illinois
1. Politics and Culture
The Harlem Black Arts Theater—New Dialogue with the Lost Black Generation
Symposium: The Measure and the Meaning of Sixties
Black Cultural Nationalism
The Black Arts Movement
Broadside Press: A Personal Chronicle
On the Boycott
The Development of the Black Revolutionary Artist
Needed: A New Image
Keep on Pushin’: Rhythm & Blues as a Weapon
2. Gender
Preface to the Black Woman
The Negro Woman in American Literature
Lorraine Hansberry: On Time!
Who Will Revere the Black Woman?
Black Men vs. Black Women
New Fashions for Afro-American Women
Queens of the Universe
3. Aesthetics/Poetics
The Changing Same (R&B and New Black Music)
If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
As Crinkly as Yours
Tripping with Black Writing
Towards a Black Aesthetic
Cultural Strangulation: Black Literature and the White Aesthetic
The Question of Form and Judgement in Contemporary Black American Poetry: 1962–1977
What Good is the Word without the Wisdom? Or “English Ain’t Relevant”
Excerpts from Black World Interview
Black Poetry—Where It’s At
Section II. Statements of Purpose: Groups and Journals
Introduction to the Documents
Final Communique of the Asian-African Conference
October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program
Editor’s Notes
The History of SUDAN (in Texas?)
Statement of Purpose and Program
Statement of Aims and What Africa Means to Americans
Food for Thought
“What Do the Muslims Want?”
Statement of Basic Aims and Objectives: Culture
OBAC [Organization of Black American Culture]
Statement of Purpose
To the Peoples of Afroamerica, Africa, and to all the Peoples of the World
By-Laws
A Statement of Purpose
Towards Revolutionary Action Movement Manifesto
Foreword to Issue 1.1
Resolutions
Section III. Poetry
The Poetry of BAM: Meditation, Critique, Praise
Storm Coming: Memoir and History (Reminiscence)
1. Consciousness
Upon Being Black One Friday Night in July
What Shall We Tell My Children Who Are Black
Black People!
The Life of Lincoln West
Black Jam for Dr. Negro
Sister Brother
A Father Tells his Son about the Statue of Liberty
Jitterbugging in the Streets
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Niggers R Scared of Revolution
But He Was Cool
Personal Jihad
Barbequed Cong: Or We Laid My Lai Low
How I Got Ovah
Summary
Tomorrow the Heroes
“Black Power!”
Twelve Gates
Cry Freedom
2. Malcolm
Eulogy for Malcolm X
A Poem for Black Hearts
Malcolm X
Portrait of Malcolm X
That Old Time Religion
Malcolm X—An Autobiography
Malcolm
For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of our Children
For Malcolm X
A Plea for the Politic Man
3. Coltrane and Jazz
How Long Has This Trane Been Gone
Legacy: In Memory of ’Trane
Tribute to Duke
Elvin Jones Gretsch Freak
Don’t Cry, Scream
The Coming of John
Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork-Pie Hat
Conversions
Transcendental Blues
Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane
A/Coltrane/Poem
On Seeing Pharaoh Sanders Blowing
Did John’s Music Kill Him?
4. Africa
African Night Suite
The Painted Lady
Africa I; Africa II
Lumumba Lives Lumumba Lives!!
My Name is Afrika
Ancestors
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra
Earth
5. Women
For Gwendolyn Brooks—A Whole & Beautiful Spirit
I Am a Black Woman
Woman Poem
Woman
If You Saw a Negro Lady
Naturally
Cadence
Blackwoman
The Last M.F.
Woman
6. Heritage
Promenade
Lynch Fragment
Urban Dream
Return to English Turn
The Music
The Idea of Ancestry
Ballad of Birmingham
Rivers of Bones and Flesh and Blood
Sunset Beach/L.A.
7. Songs
Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud
Afro Blue
What’s Goin’ On
Keep on Pushin’
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
War
Section IV. Drama
The Kuumba Theatre: A Radical Idea Comes to Life
Living in the Black Arts Movement
A Black Mass
Clara’s Ole Man
Prayer Meeting or, the First Militant Preacher
Wine in the Wilderness
The Suicide
Flowers for the Trashman
The Monster
The Bronx Is Next
Section V. Fiction/Narrative
Black Arts Fiction: An Introduction
The Organizer’s Wife
Harlem
A Love Song for Seven Little Boys Called; Sam
Sonny’s Seasons
Reena
A Happening in Barbados
Excerpt from the Bluest Eye
Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon
Frankie Mae
The King Alfred Plan
Afterwords
The Hip Hop Vision: Password: Nation Conscious Rap
Coming from a Black Thing: Remembering the Black Arts Movement
Learning from the 60s
Selected Bibliography
Back Cover