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ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Carl Weber
Victoria Christopher Murray
Octavia Butler
Ibram X. Kendi
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
John Steptoe
Ernest Gaines
Derrick Barnes
Claud Anderson
Derrick Bell
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aaron McGruder
Anthony Browder
Kevin Y. Brown
Naleighna Kai
Iyanla Vanzant
Ntozake Shange
Jerry Craft
Brenda Jackson
Jawanza Kunjufu
Frances Cress Welsing
Karrine Steffans
Terrie Williams
Innosanto Nagara
Michelle Alexander
Rita Williams-Garcia
Jesmyn Ward
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Chancellor Williams
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Crystal Swain-Bates
Tom Burrell
Ijeoma Oluo
Iceberg Slim
Carole Boston Weatherford
Isabel Wilkerson
Kevin Powell
Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Gayl Jones
Edwidge Danticat
Kelly Starling Lyons
Jerdine Nolen
Nikki Giovanni
Teri Woods
Floyd Cooper
jessica Care moore
Robin Walker
Virginia Hamilton
Jabari Asim
Kiki Swinson
Barack Obama
O.T. Begho
Haki Madhubuti
M. D. Williams
Brit Bennett
Zane
Margot Lee Shetterly
Cerece Rennie Murphy
Yvonne S. Thornton
Tavis Smiley
Terry McMillan
Cedella Marley
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
Michael Eric Dyson
E. Lynn Harris
John A. Williams
Carter G. Woodson
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Sister Souljah
JaQuavis Coleman
Zora Neale Hurston
Wahida Clark
Lupita Nyong’o
Ivan Van Sertima
Eric Jerome Dickey
Alicia D. Williams
K’wan
Sadeqa Johnson
Lerone Bennett
John Henrik Clarke
Michael Baisden
Bebe Moore Campbell
Taye Diggs
Nikki Grimes
Beverly Jenkins
Vickie M. Stringer
Malaika Adero
W.E.B. Du Bois
Nikki Turner
Mechal Renee Roe
Na’im Akbar
Wade Hudson
Hill Harper
Maya Angelou
T. N. Baker
J. A. Rogers
Joy Deja King
d. E. Rogers
Guy Johnson
Cornel West
Marita Golden
Tia Williams
Shannon Holmes