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Jesmyn Ward
Innosanto Nagara
Misty Copeland
Anthony Browder
Rita Williams-Garcia
Kwei Quartey
Angela Johnson
Kwame Alexander
Crystal Swain-Bates
Pearl Cleage
Barack Obama
Walter Mosley
Saul Williams
J. A. Rogers
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Langston Hughes
Claud Anderson
M. D. Williams
Margot Lee Shetterly
Michael Baisden
John Henrik Clarke
Jerry Craft
Carter G. Woodson
Sadeqa Johnson
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Keisha Ervin
D. Amari Jackson
Yvonne S. Thornton
Malaika Adero
Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
Nikki Grimes
Zora Neale Hurston
Terrie Williams
Jacqueline Woodson
Alice Walker
Victoria Christopher Murray
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Iceberg Slim
Ntozake Shange
Chancellor Williams
Mechal Renee Roe
Lebron James
Ibtihaj Muhammad
T. N. Baker
Naleighna Kai
Brenda Jackson
James Earl Hardy
John Steptoe
Ijeoma Oluo
Michelle Alexander
Karrine Steffans
T. D. Jakes
Gayl Jones
Hill Harper
Nikki Turner
Teri Woods
Donald Goines
John Edgar Wideman
Haki Madhubuti
asha bandele
Renée Watson
Zane
April Sinclair
Kiki Swinson
Jawanza Kunjufu
Kimberla Lawson Roby
James McBride
E. Lynn Harris
Sister Souljah
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Alicia D. Williams
W.E.B. Du Bois
Colson Whitehead
Carmen Bryan
O.T. Begho
Na’im Akbar
James Baldwin
Edwidge Danticat
Bernice L. McFadden
Virginia Hamilton
Ivan Van Sertima
JaQuavis Coleman
Vickie M. Stringer
Ernest Gaines
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Kadir Nelson
Carl Weber
Martha Kennerson
Robin Walker
Donna Drew Sawyer
Derrick Barnes
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Kelly Starling Lyons
Amanda Gorman
Daniel Black
Derrick Bell
Sapphire
Michael Eric Dyson
Lupita Nyong’o
Wade Hudson
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
J.J. Smith
Michael Harriot
Cornel West
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley