Digital Table of Contents

Heirloom: Preserving hbcu futures
2021
47.2

Cover Art Front and Back: Tokie Rome-Taylor, Prince of Knowledge & Tied to Expectations
Interior Page: Tokie Rome-Taylor, Black Reign

Digital Content

The Great Reset (Control Alt Delete Intro)
Darryl Cohen a.k.a. DJ D-Skillz

Battle Hymn: Crownsville, 1871–2021
Monifa Love

Autobiography for the body that won’t leave
Carmin Wong

Burn
Microphone Wizard
Stuff of Local Legend
Jason da Hater

Introduction
Heirloom—Planting as We Rise
Sheree Renée Thomas, Danielle L. Littlefield & Danian Darrell Jerry

Interviews/Nonfiction
Up from Slavery: Historically Black Colleges & the Struggle for Black Futures
Reynaldo Anderson

The Land of Jericho: A Conversation with Jericho Brown
Danielle L. Littlefield

The King’s English: An Afrofuturist Analysis of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Diction
Kelvin Cotton Jr.

My JSU: A Full Circle Legacy
helen j. crump

Ships at a Distance
Andrew J. Skerritt

Unrest: 21st Century Ghost Boys Laying Wreaths for Emmett Till
Shanna L. Smith

Seeking an Aesthetic of Union: Considering Selected Works of Betye Saar & Ntozake Shange
V Efua Prince

Founding Planet Deep South as a Vehicle for HBCU Worldbuilding: In Conversation with John Jennings with Reflections by Clinton R. Fluker & Ytasha L. Womack
Rico D. Chapman

Visual Art

Fear of a Black Future
Blood Cotton
Pan Afro Confederate
Resurrection of Black Power
Planet Deep South Save the Date
ATLien
Black Kirby

Homage to Home
Collective Sentiment
Promise
Dreamkeeper: In Her Eyes
Lakesha S. Moore

Self Portrait
Vegan
Black Planet
Water Knows
Black Family
Antwoine Washington

Promise
Jump
Andrea Walls

Finding Her Shadow
Lotus
Melanie Henderson

Aunt Liza
R. Rashaan Gardner

Madonna & Child
Kenyatta Stewart

Now You See Me
Stargazer’s Charm
Untitled
Wishes & Growth
All Her Glory
Mary Finney

Wings
Internal
Destination
Shanell Kitt

Desmond Richardson as Marvel’s Equinox
Stacey Robinson

Cybertrap
John Jennings

Poetry

In Which Pecola Flies Above…
The Immortal Underground Forest, or My Family Trees (A Contrapuntal)
Haibun Trying to Define (Black) Love
Origin Theory (as seen through a broken mirror)
Ariana Benson

Breauna Does an Onomastic Reading
Oya as Tornado
Declaration
Breauna L. Roach

Fiya Wata
Autobiography for the body that won’t leave
Cracking Coconut
fleeing home
Carmin Wong

Black Dudes with Gator Shoes
7th Ward Daily Fare: or Black Creole Talk
Resurrection Sunday, Tree Top Visits
Mona Lisa Saloy

Elusive
Lenard D. Moore

Erros
Mysteries! Give Me Power
Ow
Go2 The Wilderness
from Act 1, Scene 2: “SEV|R|L |ANG|AGES LY_NG TO_ETHER T|GHT_Y” (AKA DOWN IN DA HOLD)
from Act 1, Scene 3: “SAIL ON, SAIL ON, OL’ SHIP…” (AKA ONE AFTER MNP RMX)
from Act 2, Scene 5: “ANOTHER LIGHT APPEARS IN THE WILDERNESS…” (MAROON AF)
Mystery: Dat Feeling
Douglas Kearney

Green Sorrow
Moonlight in Du Bois Hall
Come
The Lily Seashore
Holler
Roman Johnson

Breathing in the Ruins
Ode to Bodega Cats
If I Was the Bible in Trump’s Hand
Miguel Se Fue
Tony Medina

(un)american sonnet #2
havin’ a party
Tangela Mitchell

Renovations
Ecumenical Service
19 Weeks 2 Days, 5 Weeks to Viability, 5 Weeks 4 Days Past Transabdominal Cerclage, Cervix 4.1cm–Long & Closed
Ashley Mack-Jackson

Day’s End Prayersong: A Remix
Shalewa Mackall

House Threatens June
Patricia Biela

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Born Digital
W(h)it(e)ness: You St NW, DC
Extremities
Terra, Nullius, Coda
On Mangoes
Fred L Joiner

the thief’s mother
Koan #2 The Secret
Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)

Tree of Life (Black Colleges Be Here)
C. Liegh McInnis

In a Family Way
Tashe House

Earhustled Conversation Last Sunday, Green Line Metro
The Cartographer Speaks on Ass
A War Chant/Grief Song for Breonna Taylor
Derrick Weston Brown

For My Old Breonna Home
Stamps
There Are Black Lives Matter Signs
Truth Thomas

Counter Punching
In Remembrance
Gluttony
Alan King

sleeping beauty
Mama
Tamara Hollins

The Negro League
From the Diary of the Black Houdini
Trapped Inside the Glove: The American Pitch
What We Live For Is What We Die For
E. Ethelbert Miller

This Place Is Mud Cloth
Sweeping Barry Farm
Collette
Jury Duty
My Name Is Peaches
Melanie Henderson

Joshua Johnson’s Portrait of Adelia Ellender
Microfiche of a Memory
Matilda
Conch Shell Prayer…
Maya L. James

Fiction
Grandpa’s Hands
Milton Davis

The Eternal Life of the Sun Kings (from The Opening of the Mouth)
Chantal James

Kara Lyn & the Southside Curse
Kiara Lowe

Prelude to a Circle
C. Liegh McInnis

Dare the Breeze
Tuere T. S. Ganges

Into Her Own
RaShell R. Smith-Spears

Space Porters
Terence Hampton Jr.

The Backfire
RaShell R. Smith-Spears

Porto Rock Pegasus
Tony Medina