- Wallace Thurman
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Lorene Cary
- Cynthia Davis
- Nancy Rawles
- Patty Rice
- Claude McKay
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Clarence Major
- Lee Liberman
- Cris Burks
- Cheryl A. Wall
- Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan
- Emily Raboteau
- Rosemary Bray
- James R. Grossman
- Evelyne Trouillot
- Hilda Gurley-Highgate
- Hilda Gurley Highgate