
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

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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
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