James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Langston Hughes
Barbara Smith (editor), Audre Lorde, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, June Jordan, Jewelle Gomez, Alice Walker, Luisah Teish, Gloria Hull, Michelle Cliff, and Bernice Johnson Reagon
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)