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- Punch me up to the gods, Brian Broome
- William Wells Brown, an African American life, Ezra Greenspan
- A long way from home, Claude McKay ; introduction by St. Clair Drake
- Baldwin's Harlem, a biography of James Baldwin, Herb Boyd
- Negro authors and composers of the United States, by W.C. Handy
- Maya Angelou, the poetry of living, [compiled and photography by] Margaret Courtney-Clarke ; foreword by Oprah Winfrey
- A song flung up to heaven, Maya Angelou
- Pagan Spain, Richard Wright ; with an introduction by Faith Berry
- Sure, I'll be your Black friend, notes from the other side of the fist bump, Ben Philippe
- Coretta Scott King Award books, using great literature with children and young adults, Claire Gatrell Stephens
- In praise of our fathers and our mothers, a black family treasury by outstanding authors and artists, compiled by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
- Maya Angelou, "diversity makes for a rich tapestry", Donna Brown Agins
- The unfinished quest of Richard Wright, Michel Fabre ; translated from the French by Isabel Barzun
- Maya Angelou, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
- The way forward is with a broken heart, Alice Walker
- Cotton field of dreams, a memoir, Janis F. Kearney ; foreword by former President William J. Clinton
- Discarded legacy, politics and poetics in the life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911, Melba Joyce Boyd
- Paul Robeson, a life of activism and art, Lindsey R. Swindall
- James Baldwin, Randall Kenan and Amy Sickels ; [introduction by Lesléa Newman]
- How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones
- Mozart and Leadbelly, stories and essays, Ernest J. Gaines; compiled and edited by Marcia Gaudet and Reggie Young
- James Baldwin's Turkish decade, erotics of exile, Magdalena J. Zaborowska
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- The education of Kevin Powell, a boy's journey into manhood, Kevin Powell
- Cornerstones, an anthology of African American literature, edited by Melvin Donalson
- Rhythm and folklore, the story of Zora Neale Hurston, Kerrily Sapet
- Black boy (American hunger), a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; with a forward by Edward P. Jones
- Zora Neale Hurston's final decade, Virginia Lynn Moylan
- What it is, race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues, Clifford Thompson
- How it feels to be colored me, Zora Neal Hurston
- Walter Dean Myers, Karen Burshtein
- Street poison, the biography of Iceberg Slim, by Justin Gifford
- Alice Walker, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
- Dust tracks on a road, Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou
- The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou
- Sterling A. Brown, building the Black aesthetic tradition, Joanne V. Gabbin
- Harlem speaks, a living history of the Harlem Renaissance, [compiled by] Cary D. Wintz
- Black boy, (American hunger), byRichard Wright
- Richard Wright, daemonic genius, a portrait of the man, a critical look at his work, Margaret Walker
- Portrait of an expatriate, William Gardner Smith, writer, LeRoy S. Hodges, Jr
- Triangular road, a memoir, Paule Marshall
- Lyrics of sunshine and shadow, the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite, Eleanor Alexander
- A song flung up to heaven, by Maya Angelou
- Talking at the gates, a life of James Baldwin : with a new introduction, James Campbell
- Race woman, the lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois, Gerald Horne
- The big sea, an autobiography
- Buck, a memoir, by M K Asante
- An angry-ass black woman, by Karen E. Quinones Miller
- I wonder as I wander, an autobiographical journey, by Langston Hughes
- Biography of American author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967, John Chandler Griffin