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