Classic Poetry:
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Toni Morrison
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Langston Hughes
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Maya Angelou
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Audre Lorde
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Phillis Wheatley
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Robert Hayden
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James Weldon Johnson
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Claude McKay
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Ida B. Wells
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Ntozake Shange
Contemporary Poetry:
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Lucille Clifton
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Rita Dove
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Morgan Parker
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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Hanif Abdurraqib
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Jericho Brown
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Nikki Giovanni
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Amanda Gorman
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Terrance Hayes
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Tyehimba Jess
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Danez Smith
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Tracey K. Smith
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Natasha D. Trethewey
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Alice Walker
Classic Fiction:
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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W.E.B DuBois
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Jean Toomer
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Nella Larsen
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Richard Wright
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Ralph Ellison
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James Baldwin
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Ann Petry
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Samuel R. Delaney
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Alex Haley
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Octavia E. Butler
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Gloria Naylor
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Gayl Jones
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Walter Mosley
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Toni Cade Bambara
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Diane McKinney-Whetstone
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Edward P. Jones
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Walter Dean Myers
Contemporary Fiction:
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Ayana Mathis
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N.K. Jemisin
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Colson Whitehead
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Yaa Gyasi
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Jesmyn Ward
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Rivers Solomon
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Jamel Brinkley
Science (Biology, Physics, Math):
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George Washington Carver
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Katherine Johnson
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Percy Julian
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Art, Theatre/Cinema, and Photography:
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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Ishmael Reed
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Amiri Baraka
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Lorraine Hansberry
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August Wilson
Politics and Government:
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Malcolm X
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Sojourner Truth
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Barack Obama
Social Issues/Essays:
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MLK
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Angela Davis
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Rosa Parks
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Michelle Obama
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Roxane Gay
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Mehrsa Baradaran
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Michelle Alexander
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Robin DiAngelo
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Frances Harper
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William Wells Brown
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Bell Hooks
