In This Issue
Summer 2018
Genocide Watch
Poetry
An ode to the Asian Uncle Tom by Yuri Kageyama
The Mother by Chun Yu
I need to talk to a Puerto Rican by Ntozake Shange
Them Stones by Theo Konrad Auer
Spring 2018 by Tennessee Reed
Two Poems by Melba Boyd
Five for Ornette Coleman by Bill Harris
Two Looks at Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby
The Unknowable Negro: Black Hair (And-Ness) Decolonized by Jevohn Newsome
Caught in Tar Baby: Finding Double Meanings/Understandings through Blackness+Tar+Orishá+ Black Magic by Sequoya Akosua Lee
Editorial
Editorial, Summer 2018 by Editor
Diary
West Oakland to West Africa Travel Diary Part 1 by Karla Brundage
Interview
Photos
Image 1: Ishmael Reed and Charles Ferrell, Vice-President, Public Programs at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit on June 9, 2018.
Image 2: Left to Right: Attorney Howard Moore, Junior with Moses the Dog in his lap, Carla Blank, Grace Moore, Ishmael Reed and Attorney Jane Moore at Sam's Log Cabin in Berkeley circa February 2018.
Image 3: Ishmael Reed Discusses "Personal Problems" at the Cinetopia Festival, Charles H. Wright Museum on June 9, 2018." Photographs by Carla Blank.
Drawings: Charles Ezra Ferrell
Photos
Burkina Faso Mask Festival
Photos by Barbara Lowenstein
