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• 3 • Introduction: And So Shaped the World • essay by
  Sheree Renée Thomas^?Sheree Renee Thomas
• 11 • His Hollow • short story by Sofia Samatar
• 19 • Let Your Light Shine Before Men • short story by Christopher Caldwell
• 35 • Eyes of Xhosa • short story by Iyanna L. Jones
• 48 • Mahogany Soul • short story by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
• 50 • Black Magic • short story by Cairo Amani
• 61 • The Call of Mother Earth • short story by Arthur Flowers
• 67 • Still Life with Hammers, a Broom & a Brick Stacker • short story by Tochi Onyebuchi
• 79 • Ten Thousand Hours • short story by Alex Jennings
• 94 • Portrait of a Young Zombie in Crisis • short story by Walidah Imarisha
• 101 • Trapped Whispers (from Cell Therapy) • short fiction by Regina N. Bradley
• 114 • Seven Possible Futures for the Black Feminist Artist • short story by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• 121 • Aphasia & Other States of Reticence • poem by Johnette Marie Ellis
• 122 • Silence of Family Trees • poem by Harry Reed
• 124 • DiVida travels First Class • poem by Monica A. Hand
• 126 • DiVida contemplates the hard problem • poem by Monica A. Hand
• 127 • Leader names all ionized matter after himself • poem by Metta Sáma
• 128 • their pasts dropped at my feet • poem by Metta Sáma
• 129 • for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life • poem by Metta Sáma
• 130 • He himself was not the light; He came only as witness to the light • poem by Metta Sáma
• 131 • Classification of Shifting, Bodies • poem by Alana Benoit
• 133 • The Bean Between the E & the I • poem by LaShawn M. Wanak
• 135 • Mable & Othello • poem by Mama Whodun
• 136 • A Reading of Adire Cloth • poem by Jacqueline Johnson
• 137 • Land Bound (a Zuihitsu) • poem by Jacqueline Johnson
• 139 • Red Giant Heartthrob • poem by Bianca Spriggs
• 140 • Daffodils • short fiction by Monica A. Hand
• 146 • Otherwise Oblivion: A Tale of the New Old Black Resistance from the Futuretime • short fiction by Derek Lee McPhatter
• 167 • The Wall • short fiction by M. Asli Dukan
• 190 • Of Alien Abductions, Pocket Universes and Slave Narratives • essay by Isiah Lavender, III
• 204 • Slavery and the Afrofuture in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand • essay by Dorothy Stringer
• 218 • Afrofuturism, Cyborgs and the Fate of Imperialism in Bill Campbell's Sunshine Patriots • essay by Jonathan Harvey
• 228 • Afrofuturism 2.0 and the Black Speculative Arts Movement: Notes on a Manifesto • essay by Reynaldo Anderson
• 237 • Speculative Sankofarration: Haunting Black Women in Contemporary Horror Fiction • essay by Kinitra D. Brooks and Alexis McGee and Stephanie Schoellman
• 249 • Scratching at the Dark: A Visual Essay on EthnoGothic • essay by John Jennings