Foreword / Mark Godfrey and Allie Biswas
Introduction / Mark Godfrey
The reader. 1959. "Problems of the Negro Artist" / Marion Perkins
1964. "Black Nationalism and the Arts" / Clebert Ford
1965. (unsigned statement) / Spiral: First Group Showing (Works in Black and White)
"The Black Revolution in Art: A Conversation with Joe Overstreet" / Lawrence [Larry] Neal
1966. "Why Spiral?" / Jeanne Siegel
"The Art of Communication as a Creative Act," and "Signposts that Point the Way" (unsigned review) / Noah Purifoy
1967. "The Black Artist: Calling a Spade a Spade" / Ishmael Reed
Black is a Color / Raymond Saunders
"Black Heroes" / Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC)
"The Wall" ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; and "The Wall" / Don L. Lee
(unsigned article in Ebony) / "Wall of Respect"
"American People: Faith Ringgold at Spectrum" / Robert Newman
1968. "Two African-American Artists in an Interview with Jay Jacobs" / Jay Jacobs
"The Black Arts Movement" / Larry Neal
"Why New Perspectives in Black Art? / Evangeline J. Montgomery and untitled text, New Perspectives: Black Art / Paul Mills
"Introduction," 30 Contemporary Black Artists / Earl Roger Mandle
"Position Paper 1 on Revolutionary Art" / Emory Douglas
"Un musée pour Harlem" / Edward Clark
"Introduction," Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections / Ralph Ellison
"Reflections from Within-Without: The Black Artist," / Frederick Fiske and "The Black Murals of Boston" / Victoria Rosenwald
"The Black Development of the Black Revolutionary Artist" / James T. Steward
1969. "The Black Artist in America: A Symposium" / Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence, Tom Lloyd, William T. Williams, and Hale Woodruff
(untitled statement) / Benny Andrews and Cliff Joseph for the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)
"Preface" / Roy Wilkins and "1969: Twelve Afro-American Artists in Perspective," / Carroll Greene
"Discussion on Black Art," "Discussion on Black Art
II," and "Black Art III" / Frank Bowling
"The Black Artist, the Black Community, the White Art World" / James R. Mellow
untitled text, 12 Black Artists from Boston / Dana Chandler Jr.
"Any Day Now: Black Art and Black Liberation" / Larry Neal
"The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity" / Elsa Honig Fine
"The Black Aesthetic" / Ameer [Amiri] Baraka
(unsigned text) / Roy DeCarava: Thru Black Eyes
"Foreword" / Edward K. Taylor and untitled statement, New Black Artists / Joe Overstreet
"Introduction" / Lawrence Alloway and Sam Hunter ; "Notes from a Work in Progress" / Frank Bowling ; untitled statement, 5+1 / William T. Williams, Jack Whitten, Melvin Edwards, Al Loving, Daniel LaRue Johnson, and Frank Bowling
"Joe Overstreet" / Frank Bowling
"Introduction" / Samella S. Lewis ; "Introduction" / Ruth G. Waddy ; untitled statements, Black Artists on Art / Gary Rickson, David Hammons, John Outterbridge, Betye Saar, Dana Chandler, Cliff Joseph, Marie Johnson, David Bradford, David Driskell, Phillip Mason, Samella Lewis, and Robert Sengstacke
letter soliciting members / Claude Booker for the Black Arts Council (BAC) ; "Art and Soul" and untitled statement, Wanted Poster Series / Charles White
untitled statement, Al Loving / Al Loving
1970. "America Black: Faith Ringgold at Spectrum" / Robert Newman
"Contemporary Black Art" / Debbie Butterfield and "Epilogue," Dimensions of Black / Samella Lewis
untitled statement / Melvin Edwards and "William T. on M.E.", Melvin Edwards: Works / William T. Williams
"Roy DeCarava: Thru Black Eyes" / A. D. Coleman
(unsigned article in Time) / "Object: Diversity"
"Critique to Black Artists" / Walter Jones
"Perspective: The Black Artist in America," and "Black Art: What Is It? (questionnaire) / Carroll Greene
"Introduction" / Dore Ashton and "Smokehouse," Using Walls (Outdoors) / Smokehouse Associates
(unsigned statement) / AFRICOBRA 1: Ten in Search of a Nation
"The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition" / Benny Andrews
"Introduction," Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston / Edmund B. Gaither ; "Black Artists' Show on View in Boston," / Hilton Kramer ; "Trying to Define 'Black Art': Must We Go Back to Social Realism?" and "'Black Art' and Expedient Politics" / Hilton Kramer ; "On Understanding Black Art" / Benny Andrews ; "What is Black Art?" / Douglas Davis ; and "Black Creativity in Quest of an Audience" / Henri Ghent
"To Make a Painter Black" / Margaret G. Burroughs
"The Role of the Artist in the Freedom Struggle" / Bayard Rustin and "The Artist Responds" / Jacob Lawrence
"Sam Gilliam: Certain Attitudes" / LeGrace G. Benson
"Black Art in America" / Barbara Rose
"Los Angeles" (interview with David Hammons) / Joseph E. Young
"AFRICOBRA 1: 10 in Search of a Nation" / Jeff Donaldson
1971. "Introduction" / Robert H. Glauber ; untitled statements, Black American Artists/1971 / Ralph Arnold, Sam Gilliam and Joseph B. Ross Jr.
Three Graphic Artists: Charles White, David Hammons, Timothy Washington / Joseph E. Young
"Preface" / Edward Spriggs ; "Introduction, Black Dimension in Contemporary American Art / David Driskell
"Larry Ocean Swims the Nile, Mississippi and Other Rivers" / Charles Childs
"The Artists' Statement / Eugene Eda, Mark Rogovin, William Walker, and John Weber ; and untitled statement, Murals for the People / William Walker
Black Experience / Keith Morrison
"Romare Bearden; The Prevalence of Ritual" / Carroll Greene
"Statement by the Artist," Niggers Ain't Gonna Never Ever Be Nothin'
All They Want to Do Is Drink and Fuck / Noah Purifoy
"It's Not Enough to Say "Black is Beautiful" / Frank Bowling
"Introduction," Contemporary Black Artists in America / Robert Doty ; untitled statement / Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) ; untitled introduction, and unsigned foreword, Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition: Black Artists in Rebuttal / Nigel Jackson ; and "Political Communications" (letter to Artforum) / John Dowell, Sam Gilliam, Daniel Johnson, Joe Overstreet, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, and William T. Williams
Notes on Black Art" / Melvin Edwards
"Introduction" / Tom Lloyd ; "White Critic-Black Art???" / Melvin Dixon ; "Black Art
White Cultural Institutions" / Tom Lloyd ; "Counter Statement to Whitney Ritz Bros" / Imamu Amiri Baraka ; "The Role We Want for Black Art" / Jeff Donaldson ; "White Art Historians
Black Art" / Bing Davis ; "Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum's Introduction" / Ray Elkins ; "The Black Artist
His Role in the Struggle" / Francis and Val Gray Ward ; and "The Re-defining of Black Art", Black Art Notes / Babatunde Folayemi
"Notes to the Young Black Artist: Revolution or Evolutions?" / Henri Ghent
"Introduction" / Steve Cannon and "Conversation with Peter Bradley, Curator of The De Luxe Show," The De Luxe Show
"Black Art: The Black Experience" / Steve Smith
"An Intermediarily Pro/Position," / Edward Spriggs ; and "Ten in Search of a Nation
Exhibition Review," AFRICOBRA II / Cherilyn C. Wright
"Foreword" / Samella S. Lewis ; "Foreword" / Ruth G. Waddy ; "Introduction" / Samella S. Lewis ; and untitled statements, Black Artists on Art, Volume 2 / Benny Andrews, Nelson Stevens, Noah Purifoy, Cleveland Bellow and Elizabeth Catlett
"Preface," Seventeen Black Artists / Elton C. Fax
"The ABA Idea" / Edmund B. Gaither ; "Notes on Art and Liberation" / Abdul Hakim Ibn Alkalimat ; "Meeting the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition / JoAnn Whatley ; "Visual art and Black Aesthetics" / Edmund B. Gaither
untitled interview with Frank Bowling, Frank Bowling / Robert Doty
"Commentary," Elizabeth Catlett: Prints and Sculpture / Jeff Donaldson
1972. Unsigned introduction ; "Art for the People" / Noah Purifoy ; untitled statements, Eleven from California / Gloria Bohanon, David Bradford, Dan Concholar, Alonzo Davis, Dale Davis, Marion Epting, David Hammons, Marie Johnson, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, and Timothy Washington
Los Angeles 1972: A Panorama of Black Artists / Carroll Greene Jr. and "County Museum Showing Work by Local Blacks" / William Wilson
untitled statements, Alma W. Thomas / Alma W. Thomas
"Introduction," Joe Overstreet / David Henderson
"Where We At' Black Women Artists" / Kay Brown
"A Rap on Photography" / Tony Eaton, Lou Draper, Beuford Smith, Ray Gibson, and Fred Beauford
"Roy DeCarava: Master Photographer" / Ray Gibson
"The Kamoinge Workshop" / Louis Draper
SCULPTURE: Statement on Work" / Sue Irons
1973. "A Message to the Could Be Political Artists of the World from Faith Ringgold" / Faith Ringgold
"Search for a Black Aesthetic" / Edward Spriggs
"The History, Philosophy and Aesthetics of AFRICOBRA," Barbara Jones-Hogu ; untitled statements, AFRI-COBRA III / Carolyn Lawrence, Jae Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Frank Smith, Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Howard Mallory, Napoleon Henderson, and Nelson Stevens
"Kay Brown: An Artist and Activist" / Diane Weathers
"Black Mirror" / Betye Saar ; "Reflections on Black Mirror, March 31-April 22" / Claudia Chapline ; "Introduction" / Samella Lewis and untitled text, Betye Saar: Selected Works, 1964-1973 / Josine Ianco-Starrels
"Black Artists/White Critics" / Benny Andrews, John Coplans, Dana Chandler, Ademola Olugebefola, Howardena Pindell, and Wee Kim
"Foreword" / Toni Morrison and "Introduction," The Black Photographers Annual 1973 / Clayton Riley
1974. "Jacob Lawrence" / Milton W. Brown
"From an Interview with David Shapiro, April 1974" / Jack Whitten
"Norman Lewis: Interview, August 29, 1974" / Vivian Browne
"Introduction," David Hammons: Selected Works, 1968-1974 / Linda G. Bryant
"A Debate: The Black Aesthetic
Opponent" / Martin Kilson and "A Debate: The Black Aesthetic
Defender" / Addison Gayle
"The Black Art Institution" / Randy Williams
1975. "Just Above Midtown Gallery" / Mimi Poser and Linda Goode Bryant, and David Hammons
"Allan M. Gordon Interviews Himself: The Phenomenology of a Black Aesthetic; Introductory Remarks" / Allan M. Gordon
"Jemimas, Mysticism, and Mojos: The Art of Betye Saar" / Benny Andrews
"Greasy Bags and Barbecue Bones" / Linda Goode Bryant
"The Role of the Black Artist" / Elizabeth Catlett
"Where the Flesh Ends and the Spirit Begins" / Burton Wasserman
"Conversation with Betye Saar" / Cindy Nemser
"The Importance of Art Patronage" / Earl G. Graves
1976. "Evolution of the Black Aesthetic: 1920-1950" / David C. Driskell
"Editorial Statement," Black Art: An International Quarterly / Samella Lewis and Val Spaulding
"Juju," Recent Works by Houston E. Conwill: Juju / Betye Saar
1977. "Statement on Nylon Mesh Works, 1977" / Senga Nengudi
"A JAM Session on Madison Avenue" / Benny Andrews
untitled statements, Studio Z: Individual Collective and other performances and events / Studio Z
1978. "Is Black Art for Real?" / Yvonne Parks Catchings
Contextures / Linda Goode Bryant and Marcy S. Philips
"Black Artists: Up against the Wall" / April Kingsley
"The Big Bash," "New York's 21 Club, and "Black Artists vs. the Black Media" / Benny Andrews
"Third World Women Speak" / Lowery Stokes Sims
1979. "Reflections on Harlem U.S.A." / Dawoud Bey
"Perspectives/Commentaries on Africobra" / Larry Neal
1980. "Afro-American Abstraction" / April Kingsley
"Charles White Was a Drawer" / Benny Andrews ; and "We Got the Message and Are Grateful" / M. J. Hewitt
1981. "Performance Statement #1: Thoughts about Myself, When Seen as a Political Performance Artist" / Lorraine O'Grady (as told to Lucy Lippard)
1982. "David Hammons: Purely an Artist" / Dawoud Bey
"Some Do's and Don'ts for Black Women Artists" / Emma Amos
1984. "Conversations with Martin Puryear" / Hugh M. Davies and Helaine Posner
untitled statements, Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art / Benny Andrews, Sam Gilliam, Al Loving, Faith Ringgold, Jack Whitten, and William T. Williams