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- The narrative of Sojourner Truth, edited and with an introduction by Margaret Washington
- Paul Robeson, a life of activism and art, Lindsey R. Swindall
- Little Satchmo, living in the shadow of my father, Louis Daniel Armstrong, Sharon Preston-Folta with Denene Millner
- Muhammad Ali, the fight for respect, by Thomas Conklin
- Honor deferred
- Matthew Henson, Michael Gilman
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup
- The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Roots, [the saga of an American family], by Alex Haley
- Colin Powell, by Catherine Reef
- Malcolm X, [a life of reinvention], Manning Marable
- Black pioneers, an untold story, William Loren Katz
- Malcolm X and Black pride, by Robert Cwiklik
- Malcolm X, [a life of reinvention], Manning Marable
- Greyboy, finding blackness in a white world, Cole Brown ; foreword by Elaine Welteroth ; afterword by Michael Eric Dyson
- Every day I fight, Stuart Scott with Larry Platt ; [foreword by Robin Roberts]
- Maggie's American dream, the life and times of a Black family, by James P. Comer ; with a foreword by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
- Willie Mays, Charles Einstein
- The picture life of Jesse Jackson, Warren J. Halliburton
- Living Black in white America, Edited by Jay David and Elaine Crane. With a foreword by David L. Lewis
- Dreams from my real father, a story of reds and deception, directed by Joel Gilbert
- Stolen, five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home, Richard Bell
- Let the trumpet sound, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Stephen B. Oates
- Stolen, five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home, Richard Bell
- Black history, Contributions in the arts, sports, science and more
- Extraordinary people of the civil rights movement, by Sheila Hardy and P. Stephen Hardy
- A taste of power, a black woman's story, Elaine Brown
- African American healers, Clinton Cox
- Roots, David L. Wolper Productions ; Warner Bros. Television ; producer, Stan Margulies ; writer, William Blinn [and others] ; director, Marvin J. Chomsky [and others], Disc 2
- The butler, a witness to history, Wil Haygood ; [foreword by Lee Daniels]
- Knocking down barriers, my fight for Black America, Truman K. Gibson, Jr. with Steve Huntley
- Contemporary Black biography, profiles from the international Black community
- Martin Luther King, Jr., a man to remember, by Patricia Mckissack
- Mary McLeod Bethune, a great American educator, by Patricia C. McKissack
- Jesse Jackson, a voice for change, Steve Otfinoski
- African-American leaders, past & present
- An original man, the life and times of Elijah Muhammad, Claude Andrew Clegg III
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup
- International Library of Negro life and history
- Harriet Tubman and Black History Month, by Polly Carter ; pictures by J. Brian Pinkney
- Every good-bye ain't gone, family portraits and personal escapades, Itabari Njeri
- Damn near white, an African American family's rise from slavery to bittersweet success, Carolyn Marie Wilkins
- Having our say, the Delany sisters' first 100 years, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth
- Marshall law, the life & times of a Baltimore Black panther
- African American almanac, 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence, Lean'tin Bracks
- There will be no miracles here, a memoir, Casey Gerald
- All is never said, the narrative of Odette Harper Hines, Judith Rollins
- Black history, from civil war through today
- Dreams from my father, a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
- I will not fear, my story of a lifetime of building faith under fire, Melba Pattillo Beals