Contents
volume 14 issue 2 | fall 2014
4
My Take
quincy troupe
14
Fon. A short story,
from Echo Tree:
The Collected Short
Fiction of Henry Dumas
henry dumas
20
Poem
derek walcott
40
The Musical Legacy
of Amiri Baraka:
The Modern Jazz Critic
as Cultural Historian,
Creative Artist,
Social Theorist, and
Philosophical Visionary
kofi natambu
46
A-Legba Poetics: Reading
Komunyakaa
aracelis girmay
58
Poems
yusef komunyakaa
22
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
john pinderhughes
30
Poems
allison hedge coke
32
Thelonious Monk:
The Jazz Composer as
Visionary
kofi natambu
BRN-FALL-2014.indb 3
62
Why The Thirty TwoYear Assault On Some
Black Male Writers?
ishmael reed
74
The Temptation of Space
richard vine
80
Poems
colleen mcelroy
92
Symposium on the
Recent “Mammy”
Sculpture of
Kara Walker
paul carter harrison
carol diehl
brenda marie osbey
clyde taylor
dennis kardon
barbara lewis
104
Poems
tyehimba jess
106
Sterling Brown and the
Browning of My Life
e. ethelbert miller
110
Poems
aracelis girmay
112
Poems
ekere tallie
116
“Be Vewy Vewy Quiet”
hermine pinson
126
Poem
sterling plumpp
128
“Madwoman in the
Attic: The Femail
Gothic in 19th Century
Literature”
lezley saar
134
Poem
cynthia dewi oka
136
The “Electronic Stimulus
for a Black Revolution”:
Black Journal and the
1960s Public Television
jane rhodes, phd
152
Gypsy & the Bully Door
nina angela mercer
166
Jules Allen’s
Photographic Series on
Black Marching Bands
gail reid
174
Caliphate Colonialism
— The Taproot of the
Trouble with Nigeria
part 1 & 2
chinweizu
198
Contributors
BLACK RENAISSANCE NOIRE
8
The Eruption:
Excerpt from Tahrir
Suite, Section 1
matthew shenoda
36
Miles Davis: A New
Revolution is Sound
kofi natambu
3
6
“Be My Brother
Forever”: Maya Angelou
& the Invention of a
Friendship, 1970’s-Style
eugene b. redmond
86
Poems
meha semwal
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