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John Hope Franklin
N.K. Jemisin
Larry Neal
Jesmyn Ward
Susie King Taylor
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Faith Ringgold
Melba Pattillo Beals
Misty Copeland
bell hooks
Joan Morgan
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Tracy K. Smith
Nell Irvin Painter
Jean Toomer
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Angela Davis
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Carter G. Woodson
Patricia Hill Collins
Harriet A. Washington
Edna Lewis
Harriet Jacobs
Langston Hughes
James Brown
August Wilson
Octavia Butler
Cornel West
Elaine Brown
Ishmael Reed
Paul Gilroy
Jourdon Anderson
Gordon Parks
Eldridge Cleaver
Rita Dove
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