A black woman speaks / Beah Richards -- Toussaint: excerpt from act 1 of a work in progress / Lorraine Hansberry -- Wedding band / Alice Childress -- The tapestry / Alexis DeVeaux -- Unfinished women cry in no man's land while a bird dies in a gilded cage / Aishah Rahman -- Spell #7: geechee jibara quik magic trance manual for technologically stressed third world people: a theater piece / Ntozake Shange -- The brothers / Kathleen Collins --Paper dolls / Elaine Jackson -- Brown silk and magenta sunsets / P.J. Gibson