Frances Goldin (editor), Debby Smith (editor), Michael Smith (editor), Michael Moore, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Yvonne Davis, Joel Kovel, Michael Ratner, Richard D. Wolff, and Frances Fox Piven
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
Tim Blunk, Raymond Luc Levasseur, Laura Whitehorn, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Prince Allah Cuba, David Gilbert, Sundiata Acoli, William Kunstler (preface), Assata Shakur (introduction), Marilyn Buck, Jamal Joseph, Kuwasi Balagoon, Sekou Odinga, and Susan Rosenberg