Part one: Poetry. Heritage / Gwendolyn Bennett --
Wind / Gwendolyn Bennett --
On a birthday / Gwendolyn Bennett --
Street lamps in early spring / Gwendolyn Bennett --
Hatred / Gwendolyn Bennett --
The lines written at the grave of Alexander Dumas / Gwendolyn Bennett --
The shattering / Arna Bontemps --
Golgotha is a mountain / Arna Bontemps --
Prodigal / Arna Bontemps --
When de saints go ma'ching home / Sterling Brown --
Strong men / Sterling Brown --
The wayside well / Joseph S. Cotter [Sr.] --
A babe is a babe / Joseph S. Cotter [Sr.] --
The tragedy of Peter / Joseph S. Cotter [Sr.] --
When I am dead / Countee Cullen --
I have a rendezvous with life / Countee Cullen --
Uncle Jim / Countee Cullen --
Words to my love / Countee Cullen --
In spite of death / Countee Cullen --
Of Old St. Augustine / Alice Dunbar-Nelson --
Communion / Countee Cullen --
Music / Countee Cullen --
The black finger / Angelina W. Grimke --
Dusk / Angelina W. Grimke --
I weep / Angelina W. Grimke --
For the candle light / Angelina W. Grimke --
Voyaging / Leslie Pinckney Hill --
On seeing two brown boys in a Catholic Church / Frank Horne --
To a persistent phantom / Frank Horne --
Our land / Langston Hughes --
America / Langston Hughes --
The jester / Langston Hughes --
To midnight Nan at Leroy's / Langston Hughes --
Dear lovely death / Langston Hughes --
Aesthete in Harlem / Langston Hughes --
Flight / Langston Hughes --
Pride / Langston Hughes --
Black seed / Langston Hughes --
Negro Servant / Langston Hughes --
Christmas Greetings / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
The riddle / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
Night / Helene Johnson --
Metamorphism / Helene Johnson --
Fulfillment / Helene Johnson --
The road / Helene Johnson --
Mother / Helene Johnson --
Summer matures / Helene Johnson --
Vers de société / Helene Johnson --
My house / Claude McKay --
America in retrospect / Claude McKay --
Solace / Clarissa M. Scott --
Joy / Clarissa M. Scott --
The last citadel / Wallace Thurman --
God's edit / Wallace Thurman.
Part two: Fiction. Virginia Idyll / John Aubrey --
The eternal quest / Anita Scott Coleman --
Cross crossings cautiously / Anita Scott Coleman --
Symphonesque / Arthur Hugg Fauset --
Drenched in light / Zora Neale Hurston --
Spunk / Zora Neale Hurston --
John Redding goes to sea / Zora Neale Hurston --
Muttsy / Zora Neale Hurston --
High ball / Claude McKay --
Clay / John F. Matheus --
Antropoi / John F. Matheus --
Coulév' Endormi / John F. Matheus --
On being a domestic / Eric D. Walrond --
The stone rebounds / Eric D. Walrond --
Cynthia goes to the prom / Eric D. Walrond --
Vignettes of the dusk / Eric D. Walrond --
A cholo romance / Eric D. Walrond --
The Voodoo's revenge / Eric D. Walrond --
The typewriter / Dorothy West --
The boll weevil starts North
Part three: Plays. The pot maker / Marita O. Bonner --
Plumes / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
Sugar Cain / Frank H. Wilson.
Part four: Reviews. Nigger
a novel by Clement Wood /
Some books of 1924 / Charles S. Johnson --
Black verse / Frank S. Horne --
The gift of black folk / Benjamin Brawley --
The Negro's cycle of song
Two African heroines / Sterling Brown --
Poet on poet / Countee Cullen --
Romance and tragedy in Harlem
Black Sadie / Nella Larsen.
Part five: Essays. Personal essays: Sand / John F. Matheus --
A gold afternoon in Germany / Clarrisa M. Scott. Literary and cultural essays: Negro folk song / John W. Work --
Roland Hayes: an appreciation / Alain Locke --
Max Reinhardt reads the Negro's dramatic horoscope / Alain Locke --
Reflections on O'Neill's plays / Paul Robeson --
Ira Aldrige / Charles S. Johnson --
The Negro audience / Willis Richardson --
Characters / Willis Richardson --
Our wonderful society: Washington / Langston Hughes --
I, too, have lived in Washington / Brenda Ray Moryck --
A point of view (an Opportunity dinner reaction) / Brenda Ray Moryck --
He smashed the color line: a sketch of Billy Pierce / Elmer A. Carter. Social essays: The church in social work / Adam Clayton Powell [Sr.] --
The Virgin Islands / Casper Holstein --
Voices from Harvard's own Negroes / Raymond Pace Alexander --
The Negro lawyer / Raymond Pace Alexander --
The practical value of higher education / Kelly Miller --
Negro history / Kelly Miller --
Where is the Negro's heaven? / Kelly Miller --
Public opinion and the Negro / Charles S. Johnson --
The social philosophy of Booker T. Washington / Charles S. Johnson --
The spirit of the Ku Klux Klan / Robert W. Bagnall --
A note on Negro education / Franklin Frazier --
The Garvey movement / Franklin Frazier --
The problems of the city dweller / Mary McLeod Bethune --
The Negro and economic radicalism / Philip Randolph --
Immunity to disease among dark-skinned people / Charles H. Garvin --
Lily-White labor / Ira De A. Reid --
The Negro in European history / J. A. Rogers --
Trained men for Negro business / John Hope --
Nat Turner: fiend or martyr? / Rayford W. Logan --
Not in the headlines: a story of a Negro radio operator.