A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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E. Lynn Harris
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Naleighna Kai
Saul Williams
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Derrick Bell
Ibram X. Kendi
Derrick Barnes
Virginia Hamilton
W.E.B. Du Bois
Cerece Rennie Murphy
Kwame Alexander
Renée Watson
Adijah & Atiya Brabham
Cheryl Willis Hudson
James Baldwin
jessica Care moore
Kelly Starling Lyons
Martha Kennerson
Robin Walker
Tiffany Warren
Wahida Clark
Robert Fleming
Nikole Hannah-Jones
John A. Williams
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Atinuke
Martin Luther King, Jr.
T. D. Jakes
d. E. Rogers
Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
Pearl Cleage
James McBride
Daniel Black
Angela Johnson
Clarence V. Reynolds
Eric Jerome Dickey
Amanda Gorman
Taye Diggs
asha bandele
Colson Whitehead
Victoria Christopher Murray
Ibi Zoboi
Wade Hudson
Marita Golden
Carter G. Woodson
Jerdine Nolen
Cornel West
John Henrik Clarke
Tavis Smiley
Nikki Woods
Guy Johnson
Joy Deja King
Ernest Gaines
Frances Cress Welsing
Terrie Williams
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Nkechi Taifa
Mechal Renee Roe
Misty Copeland
Walter Mosley
Ann Petry
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Kadir Nelson
Jabari Asim
Herb Boyd
Sadeqa Johnson
Gayl Jones
Jerry Craft
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Beverly Jenkins
Lupita Nyong’o
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Malaika Adero
Nikki Grimes
John Edgar Wideman
Margot Lee Shetterly
Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Iceberg Slim
Trice Hickman
Keisha Ervin
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Tom Burrell
J.J. Smith
bell hooks
Mildred D. Taylor
Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Michael Eric Dyson
April Sinclair
Kevin Y. Brown
George G. M. James
Michael Baisden
Karrine Steffans
Richard Wright
T. N. Baker
Anthony Browder
K’wan
Rita Williams-Garcia
Crystal Swain-Bates
Teri Woods
Vickie M. Stringer
Tony Dungy
Jawanza Kunjufu
Vashti Harrison
Faith Ringgold