University of Massachusetts Press,
SOS/Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader
Black Arts Movement / THEORY/CRITICISM -- Introduction to Theory / Criticism / Poetry and Black Liberation: Freedom's Furious Passions (Reminiscence) / DA-DUM-DUN: A BAM Triumvirate of Conch/Us/Nest: Miles Davis, Henry Dumas & Katherine Dunham in East St. Louis, Illinois (Reminiscence) / Politics and Culture -- Harlem Black Arts Theater -- New Dialogue with the Lost Black Generation / Symposium: The Measure and the Meaning of Sixties / Black Cultural Nationalism / Black Arts Movement / Southern Black Cultural Alliance, By-Laws -- Third World Press, A Statement of Purpose -- Max Stanford (Muhammad Ahmad), Towards Revolutionary Action Movement Manifesto -- Umbra, Foreword to Issue 1.1 -- Larry Neal [Atlanta C.A.P. Creativity Workshop], Resolutions -- POETRY -- Poetry of BAM: Meditation, Critique, Praise / STORM COMING: Memoir and History (Reminiscence) / Consciousness -- Upon Being Black One Friday Night in July / What Shall We Tell My Children Who Are Black / Black People! / Life of Lincoln West / Black jam for dr. negro / Sister Brother / Father Tells His Son About the Statue of Liberty / Jitterbugging in the Streets / 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 / Malcolm -- Eulogy for Malcolm X / 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 / Plea for the Politic Man / 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 / 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? / Africa -- African Night Suite / Painted Lady / Africa I; Africa II / LUMUMBA LIVES LUMUMBA LIVES!! / My Name Is Africa / Ancestors / I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra / Earth / 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 / Last M.F. / Woman / Heritage -- Promenade / Lynch Fragment / Urban Dream / Return to English Turn / Music / Idea of Ancestry / Ballad of Birmingham / Rivers of Bones and Flesh and Blood / Sunset Beach/L.A. / 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 / DRAMA -- Kuumba Theatre: A Radical Idea Comes to Life (Reminiscence) / Living in the Black Arts Movement (Reminiscence) / Black Mass / Clara's Ole Man / Prayer Meeting Or, The First Militant Preacher / Wine in the Wilderness / Suicide / Flowers for the Trashman / Monster / Bronx Is Next / FICTION / NARRATIVE -- Black Arts Fiction: An Introduction / Organizer's Wife / Harlem / Love Song for Seven Little Boys Called; Sam / Sonny's Seasons / Reena / Happening in Barbados / Excerpt from The Bluest Eye / Cab Calloway Stands In for the Moon / Frankie Mae / King Alfred Plan / AFTERWORDS -- Hip Hop Vision: Password: Nation Conscious Rap / Coming from a Black Thing: Remembering the Black Arts Movement / Learning from the 60s
Smethurst, James Edward, editor.
Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- editor.
Bracey, John H., editor.
Amiri Baraka -- A.B. Spellman -- Askia M. Toure -- Eugene B. Redmond -- Harold Cruse -- Carolyn Gerald -- Ron (Maulana) Karenga -- Larry Neal -- Sonia Sanchez -- Haki Madhubuti -- Johari Amini -- Dr. Margaret Burroughs -- Amiri Baraka -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Mari Evans -- Joe Goncalves -- Bobb Hamilton -- Calvin C. Hernton -- Gil Scott-Heron -- Kim Green -- Haki Madhubuti -- Gaston Neal -- Eugene Redmond -- Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- A.B. Spellman -- Edward S. Spriggs -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Askia Toure -- Ossie Davis -- Amiri Baraka -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Etheridge Knight -- Marvin E. Jackmon -- Larry Neal -- Sonia Sanchez -- Quincy Troupe -- Margaret Walker -- Jay Wright -- Jayne Cortez -- Ebon Dooley -- Sarah Webster Fabio -- David Henderson -- Haki Madhubuti -- Amus Mor -- Larry Neal -- Sterling Plumpp -- Yusuf Rahman -- Carolyn Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- Sonia Sanchez -- A.B. Spellman -- Jayne Cortez -- Margaret Danner -- Nikki Giovanni -- Ted Joans -- Keorapetse Kgositsile -- Dudley Randall -- Ishmael Reed -- Askia Toure -- Johari Amini -- Mari Evans -- Nikki Giovanni -- Gloria Larry House -- June Jordan -- Audre Lorde -- K. Curtis Lyle -- Haki Madhubuti -- Carolyn Rodgers -- Sonia Sanchez -- Sam Cornish -- Jayne Cortez -- Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Tom Dent -- Everett Hoagland -- Etheridge Knight -- Dudley Randall -- Eugene Redmond -- Ahmos Zu-Bolton -- James Brown -- Oscar Brown Jr. -- Marvin Gaye -- Curtis Mayfield -- Weldon J. Irvine Jr. -- Barrett Strong -- Francis Ward -- Aishah Rahman -- Amiri Baraka -- Ed Bullins -- Ben Caldwell -- Alice Childress -- Carol Freeman -- Marvin E. Jackmon -- Ronald Milner -- Sonia Sanchez -- Eleanor W. Traylor -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Henry Dumas -- C.H. Fuller Jr. -- Sam Greenlee -- Paule Marshall -- Louise Meriwether -- Toni Morrison -- Ishmael Reed -- Jean Wheeler Smith -- John A. Williams -- James G. Spady -- John H. Bracey Jr. -- Audrey Lorde.
edited by John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst.
SOS/Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader
