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A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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Jawanza Kunjufu
Karrine Steffans
Teri Woods
Wahida Clark
J. A. Rogers
Iyanla Vanzant
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Maya Angelou
J. California Cooper
Joy Deja King
Carter G. Woodson
Hill Harper
Martha Kennerson
Carl Weber
Nikki Turner
Eric Jerome Dickey
Guy Johnson
Vickie M. Stringer
Leonce Gaiter
J.J. Smith
Rita Williams-Garcia
Walter Mosley
Carleen Brice
John Henrik Clarke
Terry McMillan
Aaron McGruder
E. Lynn Harris
Ivan Van Sertima
Cornel West
Edwidge Danticat
Frances Cress Welsing
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Toni Morrison
W.E.B. Du Bois
Amos N. Wilson
Naleighna Kai
Ntozake Shange
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tavis Smiley
Timothy George
Donald Goines
Herb Boyd
James Earl Hardy
Kola Boof
Tia Williams
Tom Burrell
Bernice L. McFadden
Kevin Powell
Pearl Cleage
Saul Williams
Taye Diggs
Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
Victoria Christopher Murray
Floyd Cooper
Jabari Asim
Jacqueline Woodson
Kiki Swinson
Michael Baisden
Nikki Woods
Robert Fleming
Tiffany Warren
Carmen Bryan
Chancellor Williams
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Ernest Gaines
Langston Hughes
M. D. Williams
Na’im Akbar
T. D. Jakes
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Yvonne S. Thornton
Barack Obama
Brenda Jackson
George G. M. James
Iceberg Slim
Lerone Bennett
Michael Eric Dyson
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Octavia Butler
Shannon Holmes
Bebe Moore Campbell
Derrick Bell
Donna Drew Sawyer
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
Garcelle Beauvais
JaQuavis Coleman
Jessica Care Moore
K’wan
Kevin Y. Brown
Marita Golden
Michelle Alexander
O.T. Begho
Sapphire
T. N. Baker
Terrie Williams
Trice Hickman
Alice Walker
Alretha Thomas
Ann Petry
asha bandele
Ayana Mathis
Booker T. Mattison
Candy Jackson
Cedella Marley
Crystal Swain-Bates
Daniel Black
Drusilla Dunjee Houston