Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell, and John Joseph Adams
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Langston Hughes
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Leroi Jones, Richard Wright, and Malcolm X
Beverly Guy-Sheftall (editor), Johnnetta Betsch Cole (epilogue), Florence "Flo" Kennedy (contributor), Patricia Hill Collins (contributor), June Jordan (contributor), Michele Wallace (contributor), Pearl Cleage (contributor), Angela Yvonne Davis (contributor), Barbara Smith (contributor), and Combahee River Collective (contributor)