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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights in the United States...
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| x Bill Cosby |
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William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the...
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| x Barack Obama |
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Barack Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States.
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| x Samuel R. Delany |
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Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. ( /dəˈleɪni/; born April 1, 1942), also known as "Chip", is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and essays...
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| x Octavia E. Butler |
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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She has won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first...
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| x Bell Hooks |
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Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks (intentionally uncapitalized), is an American author, feminist, and social activist. She took her nom de plume from her maternal great-grandmother Bell Blair...
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| x Katherine Dunham |
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Katherine Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, and company director as well as an author, educator, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of...
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| x Nalo Hopkinson |
Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms) and short stories such as those in her collection...
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| x Cornel West |
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Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
West is a 1973 graduate of Harvard University and a doctoral graduate of...
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| x Delbert Baker |
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Delbert W. Baker is a Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, educator, and administrator. He is currently a vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Baker was born in 1953 in Oakland, California. He holds a BA in...
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| x Ahmos Zu-Bolton |
Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948, Poplarville, Mississippi – March 8, 2005) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
Born in Poplarville, Mississippi, Zu...
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| x Maya Angelou |
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Maya Angelou (pronounced /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/; born Marguerite Ann Johnson; April 4, 1928) is an American author and poet. She has published six autobiographies, five books of essays, numerous books of poetry, and is credited with a long list of...
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| x Tina McElroy Ansa |
Tina McElroy Ansa (born November 18, 1949) is an African American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist. Born Tina McElroy to Walter J. and Nellie McElroy in Macon, Georgia, where she grew up in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. After...
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| x Mechelle Avey |
Felice Mechelle Avey (born in Odessa, Texas) is an African-American author. Avey founded the now-defunct Multicultural Writers Group on AOL. After the group disbanded, Avey completed her first novel: A Lifetime Loving You, which she self-published...
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| x Michael Baisden |
Michael Baisden is a radio personality and host of The Michael Baisden Show. The show is syndicated by Cumulus Media and is heard in over 78 media markets nationwide with over 8 million listeners daily. His media career began when he left his job...
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| x James Baldwin |
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James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.
Baldwin's essays, for instance "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial,...
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| x Toni Cade Bambara |
Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995) was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.
Toni Cade Bambara was born in New York City to parents Walter and Helen ...
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| x Leslie Esdaile Banks |
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Leslie Esdaile Banks, née Peterson (December 11, 1959 – August 2, 2011) was an American writer under the pennames of Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, Leslie Esdaile Banks and L. A. Banks. She wrote in various genres, including African...
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| x Amiri Baraka |
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Amiri Baraka (born October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones, is an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the...
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| x Steven Barnes |
Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952, Los Angeles, California) is an African-American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician.
He has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also...
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| x Paul Beatty |
Paul Beatty (born 1962 in Los Angeles) is a contemporary African-American author. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. A 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in...
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| x Derrick Bell |
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Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was the first tenured African-American Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and is largely credited as one of the originators of critical race theory. He was a Visiting Professor at New...
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| x Lerone Bennett, Jr. |
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Lerone Bennett, Jr. (born 17 October 1928) is an African-American scholar, author and social historian, known for his revisionist analysis of race relations in the United States. His best-known works include Before the Mayflower and Forced into...
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| x Bertice Berry |
Dr. Bertice Berry (born 1960) is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator.
Berry grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville University in Florida, and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Kent State...
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| x Marita Bonner |
Marita Bonner (June 16, 1899 – 1971) (also known as Marieta Bonner) was an African American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also known as Marita Occomy, Marita Odette Bonner, Marita...
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| x Arna Bontemps |
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Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973) was an American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
Bontemps was born in the city of Alexandria, Louisiana on October 13, 1902 to the son of Charlie Bontemps and Marie...
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| x David Bradley |
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David Henry Bradley, Jr. (born 1950, in Bedford, Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and author of South Street and the The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982.
The...
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| x Gwendolyn Brooks |
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was...
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| x Hallie Quinn Brown |
Hallie Quinn Brown (March 10, 1849 – September 16, 1949) was an African American educator, writer and activist.
Brown was born March 10, 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of six children. Her parents Frances Jane Scroggins and Thomas Arthur...
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| x William Wells Brown |
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William Wells Brown (November 6, 1814 – November 6, 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North in 1834, where he...
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| x Ed Bullins |
Ed Bullins (born July 2, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African American playwright. He was also the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers. In addition, he has won numerous awards, including the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award...
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| x Olivia Ward Bush |
Olivia Ward Bush Banks (May 23, 1869–1944) was an American author, poet and journalist of African American and Montaukett Native American descent. Ward celebrated both of her heritages in her poetry and writing. She was a regular contributor to the...
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| x Bebe Moore Campbell |
Bebe Moore Campbell (February 18, 1950 – November 27, 2006), was the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001". Her...
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| x Stokely Carmichael |
Stokely Carmichael (aka Kwame Ture; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
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| x Stephen L. Carter |
Stephen L. Carter (born October 26, 1954) is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.
Carter graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, and his essay "The Best Black" is based in part on his...
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| x Cyrus Cassells |
Cyrus Cassells (born 1957) is an American poet and professor.
Cassells was born in Dover, Delaware, grew up in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, and began writing poetry in high school. He graduated in 1979 from Stanford University with a...
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| x Charles W. Chesnutt |
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 17, 1932) was an American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War...
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| x Rasheed Clark |
Rasheed Clark (born April 10, 1975) is a best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life.
Rasheed Clark was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1998, Clark began a short story about a woman telling...
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| x Troy CLE |
Troy Tompkins, known as Troy CLE, is an American fiction writer from East Orange, New Jersey. He is the author of The Marvelous Effect, the first book in The Marvelous World Saga. The book follows young African-American protagonist Louis Proof. The...
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| x Pearl Cleage |
Pearl Cleage (born December 7, 1948) is an African-American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah’s Book Club selection. Cleage is known for...
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| x Eldridge Cleaver |
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Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) better known as Eldridge Cleaver, was a writer, political activist, and self-confessed serial rapist who became an early leader of the Black Panther Party. His book Soul On Ice is a collection...
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| x Michelle Cliff |
Michelle Cliff (born 2 November 1946) is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng and Free Enterprise.
Cliff also has written short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism. Her works explore...
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| x Lucille Clifton |
Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 Depew, New York – February 13, 2010 Baltimore, Maryland ) was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Common topics in her poetry include the...
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| x Wendy Coakley-Thompson |
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Wendy Coakley-Thompson (born Wendy Cecille Thompson on December 27, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York), is a mainstream fiction author. Coakley-Thompson's work is part of emerging millennial contemporary African American literature. Coakley-Thompson's...
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| x Wanda Coleman |
Wanda Coleman (birth name, Wanda Evans) (born November 13, 1946) is an American poet. She is known as "the L.A. Blueswoman," and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles."
Coleman was born Wanda Evans, and grew up in the Watts neighborhood of...
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| x Marvel Cooke |
Marvel Cooke (April 4, 1903 – November 29, 2000) was an American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to work at a mainstream white-owned newspaper.
Cooke was born in Mankato, Minnesota and...
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| x Anna J. Cooper |
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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her Ph.D in history from the University of Paris...
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| x J. California Cooper |
J. California Cooper, Joan California Cooper, is an African American playwright and author. Writer of 17 plays and the winner of Black Playwright of the Year in 1978.
Alice Walker has said that "Her style is deceptively simple and direct and the...
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| x Jayne Cortez |
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Jayne Cortez (born May 10, 1936 Fort Huachuca, Arizona) is an American poet, and performance artist.
She grew up in California. She is the author of ten books of poems and performer of her poetry with music on nine recordings. Her voice is...
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| x Donald Crews |
Donald Crews (born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1938) is a U.S. writer and illustrator of several well-known children's picture books. He won the Caldecott Honor twice. Common subjects of his include modern technology (especially travel vehicles), and...
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| x Stanley Crouch |
Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?
During the early 1970s, Crouch...
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| x Countee Cullen |
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Countee Cullen (1903 – January 9, 1946) was an American poet who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Countee Cullen was possibly born on May 30, although due to conflicting accounts of his early life, a general application of the year of...
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| x Christopher Paul Curtis |
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Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953) is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both the...
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| x Jeffrey Daniels |
Jeffrey Sean Daniels is a Chicago-raised African American poet, artist, and professor at Harold Washington College. He has previously taught at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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| x Edwidge Danticat |
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Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is an Haitian-American author.
Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. When she was two years old, her father André immigrated to New York, to be followed...
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| x Angela Davis |
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Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA and Black Panther Party, and through her...
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| x Frank Marshall Davis |
Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905, Arkansas City, Kansas; July 26, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American journalist, poet, and political and labor movement activist.
Beginning at age 17, Davis attended Friends University (1923) and later...
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| x Lucy Delaney |
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Lucy Ann Delaney, born Lucy Berry (c. 1830 – after 1891), was an African-American author, former slave, and activist, notable for her 1891 narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom. This is the only first-person account...
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| x Eric Jerome Dickey |
Eric Jerome Dickey (born July 7, 1961) is a New York Times best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life. He is also known for writing several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins,...
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| x Anita Doreen Diggs |
Anita Doreen Diggs (born 1966 in New York City) is an American editor, novelist, and lecturer.
Diggs grew up in New York City where she attended public schools in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan.
She later worked as a senior editor at Random...
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