America's foremost black writers recreate the people, the landscape, the joy, and the horror of their ghetto heartland...

Here is a unique and superb collection of tales which recapture the essence of Harlem and its people.

Here Ann Petry tells of how one small flame flame of anger in a black man mourning a son ignites a riot in the ghetto...

Here Chester Himes writes of ayoung soldier and a lovely black girl tasting all the sensuous joys of Harlem...

Here Clayton Riley describes a wild and fateful party attended by a fantastic crowd of pimps and hustlers, whores and bums...

Here Ray Meaddough spins a wry tale of the star black athlete chosen to squire the white prom queen...

Here is a rich and revealing portrait of black America's spiritual homeland-the fascinating place and its people that are on everybody's mind.