With Volume 4, we honor Black matriarchs of the past, present, and future. This issue features a profile on the remarkable intellectual, Anna Julia Cooper, by accomplished arts and culture writer, Colony Little. We also held our first children's poetry contest judged by the North Carolina Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green. See the full list of contributors below:
 
Samantha Everette
Colony Little 
Jade Wilson
Jaki Shelton Green
Courtney Napier
Aerial Sanders
Anthony Fitzpatrick
Phillip Loken
Akira Dudley
Carmen Wimberley Cauthen
Liz Cooper
Kashinda Marche