Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Robert Chrisman
Senior Editor, Robert L. Allen
Associate Editor, Maize Woodford
Business Manager, Marsha Carter
Circulation, Margaret Davis
Contributing and Advisory Editor, JoNina M. Abron, Journalism, W. Michigan Univ.
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Abdul Alkalimat, PH.D., Sociologist, Univ. of Toledo
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Ernest Allen, Historian, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Contributing and Advisory Editor, S.E. Anderson, Associate Director, The Brecht Forum/Marxist School, New York
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Frances M. Beal, Journalist, Comm. of Correspondence, Oakland
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Shirley Better, NABSW, Los Angeles
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Andrew Billingsley, Ph.D., Morgan State Univ.
Contributing and Advisory Editor, J. Herman Blake, Ph.D., Indiana/Purdue Universities, Indianapolis
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Melba Joyce Boyd, D.A., Africana Studies, Wayne State Univ.
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Price Cobbs, M.D., Psychiatrist and Author
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory University
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Jayne Cortez, Poet, New York
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Angela Y. Davis, UC Santa Cruz
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Ossie Davis, Actor, Playwright, Director
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Davis Graham Du Bois, Author, Cairo, Egypt
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Harry Edwards, Ph.D., Sociologist, UC Berkeley
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Hermon George, Jr., Ph.D., Black Studies, U. of N. Colorado
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Beverly Guy-Sheftal, Women's Studies, Spelman College
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Vincent Harding, Ph.D., Iliff School of Theology, Denver
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Michael S. Harper, Poet, Brown University
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Darcus Howe, Race Today, London
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Jessica Huntley, Bogle L'Ouverture Press, London
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Chalis Johnson, Africana Studies, Cornell
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Maulana Karenga, Ph.D., Calif. State Univ., Long Beach
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Joyce A. Ladner, Ph.D., Howard University
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Poet Laureate, Baton Rouge
Contributing and Advisory Editor, John La Rose, New Beacon Press, London
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Haki R. Madhubuti, Publisher, Chicago
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D., Economist, Political Commentator, Washington, DC
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Adam David Miller, Poet, Editor, Berkeley
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Carolyn A. Mitchell, Ph.D., English, Hampton University
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Nancy Morejón, Poet, Havana
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Imari Abubakari Obadele, President, RNA
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Sharon Patton, Ph.D., Art History, Oberlin
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Psychiatrist, Harvard
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Max Roach, Musician and Composer
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Sonia Sanchez, Author, Temple University
Contributing and Advisory Editor, David L. Smith, Ph.D., Dean of Faculty, Williams College
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Hortense Spillers, English, Cornell
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Robert Staples, Ph.D., Sociologist, UC San Francisco
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Rosemary M. Stevenson, Bibliographer, Univ. of Illinois
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Chuck Stone, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Michael Thelwell, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Dempsey Travis, Banker, Chicago
Contributing and Advisory Editor, James Turner, Africana Studies, Cornell Univ.
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Ronald Walters, Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Joseph White, Ph.D., UC Irvine
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Preston Wilcox, Chairman, AFRAM, New York
Contributing and Advisory Editor, A. Cecil Williams, Glide Memorial Church, S.F.
Contributing and Advisory Editor, Ernest Wilson, III, PH.D., Univ. of Maryland, College Park
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