Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Charles Johnson -- Introduction by Tonya Bolden -- “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara (USA) -- “The Scar” by Cecil Foster (Barbados) -- “The Day the World Almost Came to an End” by Pearl Crayton (USA) -- “The Late Bud” by Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana) -- “The Mountain” by Martin J. Hamer (USA) -- “Bright Thursdays” by Oliver Senior (Jamaica) -- “The Boy Who Painted Christ Black” by John Henrik Clarke (USA) -- “BigWater” by Charlotte Watson Sherman (USA) -- “Swan Song” by Quince Duncan (Costa Rica) -- “Getting the Facts of Life” by Paulette Childress White (USA) -- “The Test” by Njabulo Ndebele (South Africa) -- “How, Why To Get Rich” by J. California Cooper (USA) -- “Johnny Blue” by Archie Weller (Australia) -- “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier (USA) -- “My Lucy” by Howard Gordon (USA) -- “Dreaming the Sky Down” by Barbara Burford (England) -- “My Mother and Mitch” by Clarence Major (USA) -- About the Contributors