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1290:(living), journalist and writer of erotic fiction and horror fiction
660:(1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the
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3561:(1939–2021), poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and professor
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473:(1924–1987), novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and activist
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3439:(d. 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator
1740:(born 1960), Jamaican Canadian, currently based in California
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2956:(born 1979), producer, playwright, screenwriter and reporter
2546:(born 1963), playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist
1671:(born 1961) writer and academic, known for her seminal work
693:(born 1972), author of romance and mainstream fiction novels
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1844:(born 1974), science fiction and speculative fiction writer
1795:(born 1941), poet, fiction writer, essayist and playwright
1376:(born 1984), motivational, inspirational, self-help writer
1027:, novelist, author, editor, professor, and literary critic
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2799:(born 1960), actor, author, drag performer, TV show host
2588:(1881–1954), orator, educator, journalist, and essayist.
2582:(born 1964), author, columnist, political thought leader
2299:(1923–2023), novelist, essayist, journalist and activist
408:(born 1949), novelist, filmmaker, teacher and journalist
2812:(born 1947), poet, author, filmmaker, teacher, activist
1278:(1897–1934), novelist, short story writer and dramatist
378:(born 1950), novelist, cultural critic and screenwriter
2848:(1895–1977), author, journalist and social commentator
2430:(1941–2020), novelist, short-story writer and activist
997:(born 1944) political activist, writer, and professor.
3991:"How Saidiya Hartman Changed the Study of Black Life"
1487:(1930–2014), novelist, poet, best known as author of
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1874:(1954–1995), poet, writer and Black lesbian activist
1211:(born 1986), author, educator, poet, and sociologist
360:(born 1968), writer of poetry and children's fiction
3166:(1928–2011), novelist, editor, teacher and musician
1752:, real-estate broker, writer, and media personality
1561:(born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, author of
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3321:(1753–1784), first published African-American poet
3249:, novelist, commentator, journalist, and columnist
3219:(born 1961), founding member of Affrilachian poets
3126:(born 1938), poet, essayist, leading voice of the
2467:(born 1974), writer of science fiction and fantasy
426:(born 1982), author, poet, screenwriter, professor
4145:"Mwatabu S. Okantah, The Muntu Kuntu Energy Poet"
3612:List of Black New York Times Best Selling Authors
2084:, historian and preservationist, writer, academic
414:(1939–2011), actor, playwright and stage director
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5315:Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
2974:(born 1950), professor and Pulitzer prize winner
1254:(1882–1961), editor, poet, essayist and novelist
5360:Black players in professional American football
5310:Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
3760:Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
2233:(1861–1907), essayist, newspaperwoman, activist
1345:(living), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
1169:(1913–1994), novelist, best known as author of
820:(born 1950), writer, director, actor, publisher
1333:(1915–2009), historian, sociologist, memoirist
336:(born 1993), author and creative writing coach
324:(born 1954), political activist and journalist
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2932:(1927–1974), journalist, novelist, and editor
1910:(1871–1938), writer and civil rights activist
1284:(born 1955), writer of young adult literature
5073:Historically black colleges and universities
3627:Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
3399:(1925–2015), author, journalist and academic
2842:(1874–1938), historian, writer, and activist
2707:(1861–1943), essayist and short-story writer
2552:(born 1969), actor, filmmaker and playwright
1928:(born 1950), novelist and short-story writer
1528:(born 1950), children's book author and poet
784:(1858–1932), novelist and short-story writer
778:(1957–2016), actress, author, drag performer
3607:List of African-American nonfiction writers
2473:(1933–2003), author of mystery and suspense
1266:(living), author, screenwriter and producer
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3580:(1948–2005), activist, poet and playwright
2719:(1948–2002), writer, producer and director
2695:(born 1983), YA/Middle-Grade novelist/poet
1728:(1952—2021), feminist, and social activist
1635:(1931–2014), historian and social activist
1157:(1825–1907), educator, activist and author
438:(1926–2024), musician, playwright and poet
390:(born 1942), activist, writer and academic
354:(born 1962), poet, essayist and playwright
5290:National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC)
4170:"Mwatabu Okantah | Kent State University"
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2558:(living), novelist and short-story writer
1498:(born 1948), novelist, playwright, critic
420:(1928–2014), author, veteran and educator
108:Learn how and when to remove this message
3574:(born 1966/67), author of erotic fiction
3363:, writer of urban and hip-hop literature
2683:(born 1938), poet, essayist and novelist
2677:(1895–1973), poet, composer and lyricist
2323:(1920–2012), poet, essayist and educator
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3285:(1828–c.1894), novelist, poet, essayist
2399:(1937–2014), writer of children's books
2185:(born 1936), poet, painter and novelist
2161:(born 1965), poet, theologian, essayist
1629:(born 1942), author of children's books
1611:(1934–2002), author of children's books
1552:(1928–1998), anthropologist, author of
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6189:Topics related to the African diaspora
5295:National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
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4069:"Tracie Howard | Penguin Random House"
3393:(1893–1992), historian and sociologist
3357:(1851–1901), poet, minister and orator
3225:(1915–1998), novelist, poet and writer
2793:, poet, essayist, playwright, novelist
2671:(1944–2013), writer of romance fiction
6169:Landmark African-American legislation
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3989:Rodriques, Elias (November 3, 2022).
3904:Foundation, Poetry (March 19, 2023).
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3297:(born 1945), playwright, screenwriter
2108:(born 1961) author, multimedia artist
2066:(1923–2008), poet, editor and teacher
1829:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1680:(1913–1980), poet, essayist, educator
1603:Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1321:(living), poet, essayist and educator
1309:(born 1987), author and screen writer
630:(1878–1962), poet and literary critic
5300:National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC)
3659:Angela Davis : an autobiography
2138:(born 1955), novelist and playwright
2011:(born 1960), memoirist, screenwriter
1364:(1872–1938), educator and playwright
790:(1916–1994), playwright and novelist
594:(1944–2010), writer of crime fiction
46:adding citations to reliable sources
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5654:African-American Vernacular English
4118:Schaub, Michael (August 21, 2018).
2866:(living), playwright and librettist
2126:(1934–1992), author, poet, activist
2090:(born 1953), novelist and memoirist
1481:(1929–2021), children's book author
1242:(1943–2003), science-fiction author
916:(born 1938), children's book author
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5572:U.S. cities with large populations
5275:Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
3731:"Rita Dove - Ohio History Central"
3455:The Declining Significance of Race
2836:(1946–2020), author and journalist
2653:(born 1959), author and songwriter
2215:(1889–1977), journalist and writer
2132:, abolitionist educator and writer
1653:(1825–1911), poet and abolitionist
1117:, (1917–1984), wrote radio series
57:"List of African-American writers"
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4445:Inauguration of Barack Obama 2013
4441:Inauguration of Barack Obama 2009
4248:African American founding fathers
3351:(born 1967), award-winning author
3229:Christopher George Latore Wallace
1814:(1908–1983), young-adult novelist
6235:Lists of African-American people
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5325:United Negro College Fund (UNCF)
4470:Nadir of American race relations
3637:List of Mexican-American writers
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3555:(1916–1991), historical novelist
3517:, comic book writer and novelist
3387:(born 1970), children's novelist
2890:(1948–2018), playwright and poet
2634:(born 1942), playwright and poet
2607:(born 1940), educator and author
2317:(1899–1995), poet and playwright
1940:(born 1970), author and academic
1260:(1849–1883), preacher and author
618:(living), writer on civil rights
384:(1859–1941), author and educator
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2659:(1914–2000), poet and publisher
2521:(born 1989), political activist
2485:(living), journalist and author
1826:(1813 or 1815–1897), author of
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5320:Thurgood Marshall College Fund
4326:Civil right movement 1896–1954
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2860:(1931–2019), author, collector
2854:(1949–2011), poet and musician
2576:(1950–2014), poet and novelist
2461:(1921–2019), poet and novelist
2455:(born 1952) poet and professor
1686:(1957–1995), poet and activist
382:Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen
366:(born 1953), author and artist
348:(born 1943), author and artist
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5500:Cherokee freedmen controversy
4476:The Negro Motorist Green Book
3642:
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2665:(1852–1916), poet and teacher
2595:
1490:The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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4019:Hartman, Saidiya V. (2022).
1432:–1980), poet, fiction writer
402:(1928–2014), author and poet
330:(born 1952), author and poet
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5370:Black players in ice hockey
5305:National Urban League (NUL)
5131:American Society of Muslims
4369:Selma to Montgomery marches
4289:Brown v. Board of Education
3935:socialsciences.uchicago.edu
3617:African-American literature
3584:
2787:series of children's novels
2781:(born 1959), author of the
2760:Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
1358:(1933–2019), fiction writer
628:William Stanley Braithwaite
122:African-American literature
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6261:
5527:Great Dismal Swamp maroons
5285:Nashville Student Movement
4296:Children of the plantation
3805:Du Bois, W. E. B. (2014).
3632:Before Columbus Foundation
2321:Arthenia J. Bates Millican
1991:Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins
1475:(1892–1960), travel writer
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6240:Lists of American writers
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4502:Reconstruction Amendments
4309:Voting Rights Act of 1965
4228:
3656:Davis, Angela Y. (2022).
908:Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.
370:Lewis Grandison Alexander
6245:African-American writers
6214:United States portal
5649:African-American English
5078:Inventors and scientists
4770:George Washington Carver
4374:Chicago Freedom Movement
3781:"W.E.B. Du Bois | NAACP"
3342:The Underground Railroad
2960:Theophilus Gould Steward
2840:Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
2729:Octavia V. Rogers Albert
1155:Sarah Jane Woodson Early
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6137:African-American firsts
5186:Back-to-Africa movement
5155:Black Hebrew Israelites
4935:Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
4483:Partus sequitur ventrem
3808:The souls of Black folk
3451:The Truly Disadvantaged
3445:(born 1935), author of
3429:(1825–1900), author of
3405:(born 1946), playwright
3333:(born 1969), novelist (
2858:Clara Johnson Scroggins
2762:(1842–1924), journalist
2713:(born 1981), playwright
2701:(1889–1977), playwright
2647:(1936–2014), playwright
2231:Victoria Earle Matthews
2005:(born 1931), playwright
1896:Georgia Douglas Johnson
1696:Safiya Henderson-Holmes
1641:(born 1992), playwright
1623:(1930–1965), playwright
1600:(1921–1992), author of
1538:Charlotte Forten Grimké
1444:(1925–1995), playwright
1438:(1891–1972), journalist
1327:(born 1937), playwright
1236:, 19th-century novelist
1193:(1938–2003), playwright
1078:The Souls of Black Folk
944:Christopher Paul Curtis
886:(1931–2014), playwright
396:(1886–1939), playwright
6105:Spingarn Medal winners
5594:States and territories
5365:Black NFL quarterbacks
4865:Martin Luther King Jr.
4397:Dred Scott v. Sandford
4336:Montgomery bus boycott
4073:PenguinRandomhouse.com
3735:ohiohistorycentral.org
2611:Carlene Hatcher Polite
2601:), educator and author
2243:James McBride (writer)
2154:
2033:Martin Luther King Jr.
1962:
1960:Martin Luther King Jr.
1690:David Henderson (poet)
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5121:African-American Jews
4840:Ketanji Brown Jackson
4805:Henry Highland Garnet
4664:Negro National Anthem
4414:George Floyd protests
4379:Post–civil rights era
3443:William Julius Wilson
3409:Sherley Anne Williams
3355:Albery Allson Whitman
3315:(1907–1998), novelist
3301:Valerie Wilson Wesley
3259:Marilyn Nelson Waniek
3194:(born 1973), novelist
2930:William Gardner Smith
2711:Harrison David Rivers
2705:Florida Ruffin Ridley
2689:(born 1987), novelist
2363:(born 1952), novelist
2347:(1931–2019), author,
2287:(born 1951), novelist
2281:(born 1964), novelist
2257:(born 1965), novelist
2159:Christopher Mwashinga
2150:
2120:(born 1974), novelist
2072:(1891–1964), novelist
2017:(1916–1987), novelist
1993:(1863–1938), novelist
1987:(1937–2017), novelist
1985:William Melvin Kelley
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1934:(born 1949), novelist
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467:(born 1972), novelist
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5622:Afro-Seminole Creole
5148:Azusa Street Revival
5020:Booker T. Washington
4544:Underground Railroad
4409:Free people of color
4263:Atlantic slave trade
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3447:When Work Disappears
3397:John Alfred Williams
3325:Walter Francis White
3277:Booker T. Washington
3253:Mildred Pitts Walter
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1708:Kameisha Jerae Hodge
1673:Scenes of Subjection
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1097:Paul Laurence Dunbar
1001:Frank Marshall Davis
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592:Eleanor Taylor Bland
520:Samuel Alfred Beadle
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5632:Black American Sign
5459:By African descent
5453:Ethnic subdivisions
5440:Southwestern (SWAC)
5355:Baseball color line
5270:Black Panther Party
5174:Political movements
5091:in computer science
4750:Carol Moseley Braun
4539:Tulsa race massacre
4532:Treatment of slaves
4364:March on Washington
4359:Birmingham movement
3710:humanities.ucsc.edu
3391:Chancellor Williams
3265:Douglas Turner Ward
3151:Neil deGrasse Tyson
3128:Black Arts Movement
3009:Mary Church Terrell
2834:Charles R. Saunders
2627:Southern University
2309:E. Ethelbert Miller
2015:John Oliver Killens
1744:George Moses Horton
1362:Ruth Gaines-Shelton
1294:Mary Weston Fordham
1222:Sarah Webster Fabio
1120:Destination Freedom
1103:Alice Dunbar-Nelson
782:Charles W. Chesnutt
734:Bebe Moore Campbell
667:William Wells Brown
568:Lerone Bennett, Jr.
538:Christopher C. Bell
352:Elizabeth Alexander
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5430:Mid-Eastern (MEAC)
5255:Civic and economic
5233:Self-determination
5054:Education, science
4975:Fred Shuttlesworth
4955:A. Philip Randolph
4860:Coretta Scott King
4785:Frederick Douglass
4612:Harlem Renaissance
4517:Separate but equal
4507:Reconstruction era
4495:Plessy v. Ferguson
4386:Cornerstone Speech
4300:Civil Rights Acts
4283:Black Lives Matter
4258:American Civil War
3472:Jacqueline Woodson
3415:Walter E. Williams
3385:Alicia D. Williams
3367:John Edgar Wideman
3185:–1916), author of
3046:Joyce Carol Thomas
2972:Jeffrey C. Stewart
2924:Effie Waller Smith
2754:Shawn Stewart Ruff
2617:Alvin F. Poussaint
2513:Brenda Marie Osbey
2453:Mwatabu S. Okantah
2355:E. Frederic Morrow
2339:Jessica Care Moore
2329:(living), novelist
2267:Patricia McKissack
2191:(living), novelist
2171:Naomi Long Madgett
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2114:(1885–1954) writer
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1878:Alaya Dawn Johnson
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1774:Zora Neale Hurston
1621:Lorraine Hansberry
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1055:Frederick Douglass
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1031:Eric Jerome Dickey
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4222:African Americans
4124:Los Angeles Times
4032:978-1-324-02158-2
3910:Poetry Foundation
3818:978-1-5052-2337-8
3669:978-0-241-55125-7
3599:Literature portal
3547:Camille Yarbrough
3486:(born 1935), poet
3466:Carter G. Woodson
3427:Harriet E. Wilson
3403:Samm-Art Williams
3379:Crystal Wilkinson
3349:Steven Whitehurst
3076:Era Bell Thompson
2997:Mildred D. Taylor
2950:(1882–1975), poet
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2818:(born 1934), poet
2725:(1940–2010), poet
2699:Willis Richardson
2632:Robert Earl Price
2515:(born 1957), poet
2397:Walter Dean Myers
2341:(born 1971), poet
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2297:Louise Meriwether
2273:Reginald McKnight
2177:Haki R. Madhubuti
2173:(1923–2020), poet
2047:(1931–1991), poet
1979:Elizabeth Keckley
1975:(1925–1986), poet
1904:(1906–1995), poet
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1820:(born 1946), poet
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1698:(1950–2001), poet
1609:Virginia Hamilton
1507:The Cheetah Girls
1479:Eloise Greenfield
1473:Victor Hugo Green
1450:(born 1998), poet
1423:Edythe Mae Gordon
1258:London R. Ferebee
1199:(1919–2017), poet
1099:(1872–1906), poet
758:Stephen L. Carter
658:Sterling A. Brown
652:Roseanne A. Brown
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4820:Fannie Lou Hamer
4790:W. E. B. Du Bois
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2051:Yusef Komunyakaa
2045:Etheridge Knight
2003:Adrienne Kennedy
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5063:Black studies
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5045:Whitney Young
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5035:Oprah Winfrey
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