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Sereniti Hall
Sereniti Hall NONE Sereniti Hall, President of 7 Figure Publications, is a prolific author of four novels and a self-help book. Her debut novel, Feenin', was recognized as a top street literature pie...
bell hooks and Stuart Hall
bell hooks and Stuart Hall MULTIPLE Bell hooks and Stuart Hall are influential thinkers in cultural studies and feminism. Hooks' work centers on intersectionality and love, while Hall is renowned for...
Katori Hall
Katori Hall 0000000071268953 Katori Hall, a renowned playwright from Memphis, is best known for her Olivier Award-winning play, The Mountaintop. Other works include Hurt Village, Hoodoo Love, and The...
Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall NONE Tamron Hall is a renowned talk show host, executive producer, and award-winning journalist known for her work on the “Today Show”, “Tamron Hall,” and “Deadline: Crime.” She's also a ...
Neal Hall
Neal Hall 0000000050176742 Dr. Neal Hall, a poet and experienced ophthalmologist, challenges racial inequality in America despite his extensive education and career. His experiences, from studying at...
Aisha Hall
Aisha Hall NONE Incarcerated author Aisha Hall uses her strength and talent to influence urban fiction, despite serving a 10+ year sentence for wire fraud. With eight novels written from prison, two ...
Aisha Hall, Sunshine Smith-Williams, Jamila T. Davis, and Wahida Clark
Aisha Hall, Sunshine Smith-Williams, Jamila T. Davis, and Wahida Clark MULTIPLE Aisha Hall, Sunshine Smith-Williams, Jamila T. Davis, and Wahida Clark are prominent authors known for their compelling...
Monique S. Hall
Monique S. Hall NONE Monique S. Hall, former basketball scholar, overcame a turbulent past involving crime and prison to become a bestselling author. Her debut novel, 'Two Tears In A Bucket', caught ...
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Marlon F. Hall
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Marlon F. Hall MULTIPLE Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Marlon F. Hall are renowned authors specializing in social issues, spirituality, and cultural studies. They blend academic ...
Tamron Hall and Lish Steiling
Tamron Hall and Lish Steiling MULTIPLE "Tamron Hall and Lish Steiling are renowned authors known for their captivating storytelling. Their works feature compelling narratives and dynamic characters, ...
James Patterson, Robert Rotstein, Christopher Charles, and Rachel Howzell Hall
James Patterson, Robert Rotstein, Christopher Charles, and Rachel Howzell Hall MULTIPLE "James Patterson, Robert Rotstein, Christopher Charles, and Rachel Howzell Hall are renowned authors, each accl...
Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall 0000000109992032 Rebecca Hall, JD, PhD, is a scholar, activist, and educator specializing in history, law, and intersectional feminist theory. A Berkeley Law graduate, she worked for low...
Rachel Howzell Hall
Rachel Howzell Hall NONE Rachel Howzell Hall is a bestselling author known for the Lou Norton series and “The Good Sister” co-authored with James Patterson. She's a board member of the Mystery Writer...
Roland C. Barksdale-Hall
Roland C. Barksdale-Hall NONE Roland C. Barksdale-Hall, a Western Pennsylvania native, is a unique storyteller and author who found his passion in storytelling despite his lack of musical talent. Kno...
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall 0000000121381154 Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was a pioneering Jamaican-British cultural theorist, political activist, and founding editor of New Left Review. He significantly contributed to t...
Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall 0000000001072306 Arsenio Hall (born February 12, 1956) is an comedian, actor, and talk show host. He hosted a late-night talk show, The Arsenio Hall Show, from 1989 until 1994, and agai...
Carla Hall
Carla Hall NONE “Say Yes! Adventure follows, then growth” Carla Hall, co-host of ABC's “The Chew”, followed her passion from accounting to modeling, and eventually discovered her true call...
Marlon F. Hall
Marlon F. Hall NONE Marlon F. Hall is a renowned anthropologist and storyteller, employing diverse mediums like film, art, and yoga to uncover beauty in brokenness. He aids individuals and organizati...
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick 0000000078273077 Marie Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940) ranks among the 40 biggest US hitmakers between 1955–1999, based on her chart history in Billboard’s Hot 100 pop singles...
Alvin Hall
Alvin Hall 0000000084193495 Alvin Hall is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, author, political activist and renowned financial educator. His numerous radio programs include The Tulsa...
Regie Gibson
Regie Gibson NONE Regie Gibson is a poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator. Regie has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other ve...
O.W. Showe
O.W. Showe NONE O.W. Showe, former professional basketball player and retired US Air Force Flight Nurse, is a hall of fame inductee known for her athletic and professional achievements. After a succe...
Fatima Shaik
Fatima Shaik 000000003107445X Fatima Shaik, born in New Orleans, is the author of “Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free, Black Brotherhood.” Rooted in family history and researched over two dec...
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen MULTIPLE Bruce Springsteen, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and recipient of 20 Grammy Awards, is the acclaimed author of NYT bestseller “Born to Run.” Honored with an ...
Stedman Graham, Stuart Emery and Russ Hall
Stedman Graham, Stuart Emery and Russ Hall MULTIPLE
Hisani P. Dubose
Hisani P. Dubose NONE “The Best Black Director of 2005” —Kam Williams Hisani DuBose is a Seton Hall University graduate, former dancer and singer turned screenwriter. She's directed ...
Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson, and Ronald Hall
Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson, and Ronald Hall MULTIPLE
Sarah Bird
Sarah Bird 000000011726115X Sarah Bird, acclaimed author of ten novels, is recognized for her literary contributions through awards like Texas Writer of the Year and the Texas Institute of Letters Li...
Jerald LeVon Hoover
Jerald LeVon Hoover NONE Jerald L. Hoover is a multi-talented author and entertainment figure, known for his best-selling novella “My Friend, My Hero.” He has received various accolades, including th...
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Cheryl Willis Hudson 0000000037209335 Cheryl Willis Hudson, editorial director of Just Us Books, focuses on publishing Black interest books for children. Co-founder of the company in 1988, she's a re...
Jamil Jivani
Jamil Jivani 0000000499249737 Jamil Jivani, a Toronto native, is a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, focusing on youth, immigrants and low-income family issues. He founded the Citizen Em...
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey 0000000084159051 Trethewey was U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014 Natasha Trethewey, an American poet and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection “Native Guard,” was inspired...
Floyd L. Griffin Jr.
Floyd L. Griffin Jr. NONE Floyd L. Griffin Jr. is a multifaceted individual who has served as a Vietnam helicopter pilot, army colonel, football coach, professor, businessman, state senator, mayor, a...
Chuck D
Chuck D 0000000368402543 Chuck D, born Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, is a renowned hip-hop artist, social activist, and multimedia producer. Best known as the leader of Public Enemy, he has significantl...
Simone A. James Alexander
Simone A. James Alexander 0000000109111143 Simone A. James Alexander is a distinguished professor, author, and researcher. Born in Guyana, she studied in Guyana, Russia, and the US, earning degrees i...
Moody Holiday
Moody Holiday NONE Brooklyn-born author Moody Holiday, graduated from Montclair State University and Seton Hall University School of Law. A busy career mom and Zumba instructor, she excels in spinnin...
Marie Brown
Marie Brown 0000000376893266 Marie Brown is the first inductee into the Publishing Hall of Fame Marie Dutton Brown, President of Marie Brown Associates, is a highly experienced literary agent with ove...
Anna Myers
Anna Myers 0000000067526788 Anna Myers, an acclaimed author of 20 youth books and Oklahoma Writers' Hall of Fame member, is a native of west Texas and longtime Oklahoma resident. She holds four Oklah...
Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan 0000000045587838 Michael Strahan is a retired American football player who spent his career with the New York Giants. Post-retirement, he became a media personality, co-hosting “Live!...
Paul Simon
Paul Simon 0000000114799181 Paul Simon is a renowned artist recognized with twelve GRAMMY Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. He is an honoree in the Songwriters and Rock & Roll H...
Rachel Montez Minor
Rachel Montez Minor NONE Rachel Montez Minor, former Broadway actress, dancer, and singer, now focuses on her second act as a writer, artist, mystic, and yoga teacher. With a career including roles i...
Deion Sanders
Deion Sanders 000000003973730X Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders, a sports legend and cultural icon, is the only player to compete in both a Super Bowl and World Series. Now a renowned coach at the Univers...
Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey
Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey MULTIPLE Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey are award-winning authors and illustrators known for works like 'The Old Truck' and 'There Was a Party for Langston'. Jerome ...
Victoria Scott-Miller
Victoria Scott-Miller NONE Victoria Scott-Miller is an acclaimed entrepreneur, author, and owner of North Carolina's first black-owned children's bookstore. She's notable for creating 'The Museum Liv...
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany 0000000109208949 Samuel R. Delany, a renowned author of science fiction and nonfiction, is known for works like Dhalgren and The Mad Man. A former English and Creative Writing profes...
William W. Sales Jr.
William W. Sales Jr. NONE William W. Sales, Jr., an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University, is an acknowledged expert on Malcolm X, authoring two books and numerous articles on the subject. A v...
Dana Bari
Dana Bari NONE Dana Bari is a romance author whose love of storytelling grew from years of reading romance and historical fiction—and from a desire to see more stories that reflect her own stage of ...
Barbara A. Robinson
Barbara A. Robinson NONE Barbara A. Robinson is a multi-faceted individual; an author, businesswoman, and educator. She served the 40th legislative district in the Maryland Senate for 13 years and is...
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes 0000000116923924 Shonda Rhimes, born 1970, is an acclaimed TV creator, producer, author, and CEO of Shondaland. With multiple awards and induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fa...
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Judith Ortiz Cofer 0000000120330160 Judith Ortiz Cofer is a renowned Puerto Rican American author known for her award-winning work across various literary genres. She is a former English and Creative...
LL Cool J
LL Cool J 0000000368571427 LL Cool J is a multi-talented figure: a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy-winning Hip-Hop artist, honored actor, best-selling author, philanthropist and CEO of Rock...
Maurice Ashley
Maurice Ashley 0000000082047654 Maurice Ashley, the first African-American International Chess Grandmaster, is a renowned coach, commentator, author, app designer, and motivational speaker. Known for...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 0000000081090255 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor in 1947, is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time. A 7-foot-2 Hall of Famer, he dominat...
Troy CLE
Troy CLE 0000000036353335 Troy Tompkins, aka Troy CLE, is a New Jersey-based fiction writer known for “The Marvelous Effect,” the first installment of The Marvelous World Saga. A Seton Hall Preparato...
Ginger Adams Otis
Ginger Adams Otis 0000000120319922 Ginger Adams Otis is an experienced New York City journalist and author. She's a staff writer at NY Daily News, having covered local politics, City Hall, and the Fi...
Calvin H. Sinnette
Calvin H. Sinnette NONE Dr. Calvin H. Sinnette is a New York-born avid golfer and Howard University Medical School graduate known for his research on African American golf history. He successfully ad...
Otis Redding
Otis Redding 0000000073596889 Otis Redding, hailed as the King of Soul, was a renowned singer, songwriter, and producer. He won multiple GRAMMYs and was inducted into several Halls of Fame. Rachel Mo...
Bakari Kitwana
Bakari Kitwana 0000000114584527 Bakari Kitwana is a renowned journalist, activist, and political analyst, known for his commentary on politics and youth culture. He has been a consultant on hip-hop, ...
Jim Brown
Jim Brown 0000000072514239 James Nathaniel Brown, born February 17, 1936, is a former American football player and actor. Renowned for his time as a fullback with the Cleveland Browns (1957-1965), he...
Bill Withers
Bill Withers 000000006309931X Bill Withers was a singer-songwriter and musician. He received numerous awards in his lifetime and won three GRAMMY Awards. William Harrison Withers Jr. (July 4, 1938 &...
Anika Noni Rose
Anika Noni Rose 0000000114968598 Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is a Tony Award winning actor and singer who has performed all over the world, including singing at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Ce...
Randall Woodfin
Randall Woodfin NONE Randall Woodfin worked at City Hall (in jobs for the mayor and the city council) and for the Jefferson County Committee on Economic Opportunity, attended Cumberland School of Law...
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley 0000000121244897 Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) was the first published African-American female poet, originally enslaved but later emancipated by the Wheatley family. Despite her d...
Misty Copeland
Misty Copeland 0000000053252958 Misty Copeland, born in 1982, is a renowned soloist at the American Ballet Theatre and a recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts. She resides in New ...
Grant Harper Reid
Grant Harper Reid NONE Dr. Grant Harper Reid, author of award-winning biography, “Rhythm For Sale,” explores the life of his grandfather, influential theatre producer Leonard Harper. An arts graduate...
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
ReShonda Tate Billingsley 0000000116441757 ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a former reporter and national bestselling author of 21 titles including both adult and teen novels. She's also an executive pr...
Michelle Lindo-Rice
Michelle Lindo-Rice NONE Michelle Lindo-Rice, bestselling author of the 'Able to Love' and 'On the Right Path' series, focuses on themes of faith, friendship, family, and forgiveness. She was nominat...
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Kimberla Lawson Roby 0000000063897135 Kimberla’s Thoughts on Concluding Her Reverend Curtis Black Series, After 15 Books Kimberla Lawson Roby is a New York Times Bestselling Author of 24 novels,...
Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson 0000000038009108 Kadir Nelson is a renowned American artist and illustrator with a Bachelor's degree from Pratt Institute. Known for his work with major clients like Sports Illustrated, ...
Kekla Magoon
Kekla Magoon 0000000040185776 Kekla Magoon, an award-winning author of eight YA novels, including The Rock and the River and X: A Novel, also pens non-fiction on historical topics. She's won an NAACP...
Neil Baldwin
Neil Baldwin 0000000108910963 Dr. Neil Baldwin, born in New York City, is a renowned author and scholar with a Ph.D. in Modern American Poetry. He has authored various poetry, textbooks, and biograph...
James F. Daniels
James F. Daniels NONE James F. Daniels, author of 'Metamorphosis: From Cotton Picker to Community Leader', shares his journey from growing up as a sharecropper in the Jim Crow South to becoming a com...
Haelee Moone
Haelee Moone NONE Haelee P. Moone, a 13-year-old CEO and Founder of The Rules of a Big Boss, LLC, is the author of several self-help books. As an 8th Grader and Honor Student, she uses her platform t...
Aaron Philip
Aaron Philip 000000002322004X "Aaron Philip, a 12-year-old from the Bronx, caught the attention of Tumblr's CEO with his earnest blog, Aaronverse. Despite living with cerebral palsy, Aaron's unique v...
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler 0000000121272003 “There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Butler was the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur Foundations Fellowship...
Jimmie Allen
Jimmie Allen 0000000465260495 Jimmie Allen is a multi-platinum American recording artist and the first Black artist to achieve two consecutive #1 hits on country radio and win the ACM New Male Artist...
Mercy B.
Mercy B. NONE Mercy B. Carruthers, acclaimed author, won the 2017 AAMBC “Female Author of the Year” and “Romance Author of the Year” awards. Mercy B. Carruthers Mercy B. was the winner of the 2017 A...
Freddi Williams Evans
Freddi Williams Evans 0000000034100692 Freddi Williams Evans is an award-winning author and former arts educator. She's recognized for her book “Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans” and her ad...
Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel
Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel MULTIPLE Judy Tyrus, a former principal ballerina with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and Oakland Ballet, now serves as a dance industry consultant and co-founder of ChromaDi...
Jarrett Pumphrey
Jarrett Pumphrey NONE Award-winning author-illustrator Jarrett Pumphrey, with his brother Jerome, creates acclaimed children's books like “The Old Truck” and “There Was a Party for Langston.” Based n...
Sharon M. Draper
Sharon M. Draper 0000000374578086 Sharon M. Draper, acclaimed author of the Sassy series and numerous teen novels, is a New York Times bestseller and multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner. A forme...
Charles R. Smith Jr.
Charles R. Smith Jr. NONE Charles R. Smith Jr. is an acclaimed author, poet, and photographer with over 30 books. He's a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration and Honor Author Aw...
Julian English
Julian English NONE Born prematurely with brain damage, Julian English defied odds by learning differently. His mother, Natasha Moulton-Levy, used travel to educate him, enabling Julian to understand...
Torman Jahi
Torman Jahi NONE Torman Jahi, for the last 27 years, has been known as an international hip-hop artist, born and raised in East Cleveland, Ohio, and calling Oakland home for the last 25 years. Jahi,...
Miasha
Miasha NONE Miasha, a best-selling author, known for her extravagant release parties and philanthropic work, has rapidly gained recognition in the book industry. With five novels, she has been hailed...
Reality Way
Reality Way NONE Reality Way, a Queens-born author, faced several life obstacles leading him to prison. It was there he developed a passion for writing, leading to his first published work, “Young Go...
Laila Ali
Laila Ali NONE Laila Amaria Ali (born December 30, 1977) is an undefeated five-time boxing world champion with a 24–0 record and a 2022 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee. As the daughter of...
Kevin M. Weeks
Kevin M. Weeks NONE Kevin M. Weeks is an acclaimed self-published Urban Fiction author known for his debut, The Street Life Series. Honored as the Best New Urban Author of 2007, his fresh approach te...
H. J. Harris
H. J. Harris NONE Dr. Herbert Harris, a retired attorney and Columbia University graduate, is a renowned author known for his books on success principles and the music industry. His work, translated ...
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson 0000000106763859 Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and commentator, known for his work at The Washington Post and his insightful commentary on race, politics, and soc...