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- Nat Turner and the Virginia slave revolt, by Rivvy Neshama
- International library of Afro-American life and history
- Prince Hall, social reformer, by Arthur Diamond
- Dovey undaunted, a black woman breaks barriers in the law, the military, and the ministry, Tonya Bolden
- We are not broken, George M. Johnson
- Buzzing with questions, the inquisitive mind of Charles Henry Turner, Janice N. Harrington ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III
- Seven miles to freedom, the Robert Smalls story, by Janet Halfmann ; illustrated by Duane Smith
- Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann Petry
- Ketanji, Justice Jackson's journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, written by Kekla Magoon ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- When Harriet met Sojourner, by Catherine Clinton ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans
- Harriet Tubman, Barbara Kramer
- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, woman of courage, by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
- Martin Luther King, the peaceful warrior, Ed Clayton ; illustrated by Donald Bermudez
- Love is loud, how Diane Nash led the Civil Rights Movement, written by Sandra Neil Wallace ; illustrated by Bryan Collier
- W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar and activist, Mark Stafford ; with additional text by John Davenport
- The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., R. Conrad Stein
- Martin Luther King Jr., written by Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara ; illustrated by Mai Ly Degnan
- Stompin' at the Savoy, how Chick Webb became the King of drums, Moira Rose Donohue ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
- Inside a thug's heart, with original poems and letters by Tupac Shakur, Angela Ardis
- Great Black Americans, formerly titled Great American Negroes, Ben Richardson and William A. Fahey
- A picture book of Frederick Douglass, David A. Adler ; illustrated by Samuel Byrd
- Ruby Bridges, written by Kekla Magoon ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint
- Little legends, exceptional men in black history, Vashti Harrison with Kwesi Johnson
- Born driven, Wendell Scott, written by Saxton Moore Jr. ; illustrated by Nolwe Azul Tamis
- Frederick Douglass, by John Passaro
- Pauli Murray, the life of a pioneering feminist and civil rights activist, by Rosita Stevens-Holsey and Terry Catasús Jennings
- Thurgood Marshall, a life for justice, James Haskins
- African-American inventors, Otha Richard Sullivan ; Jim Haskins, general editor
- Trailblazer, the story of ballerina Raven Wilkinson, by Leda Schubert ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III ; with a foreword by Misty Copeland
- Mary McLeod Bethune, champion for education, by Carol Greene
- Grandpa stops a war, a Paul Robeson story, Susan Robeson ; illustrated by Rod Brown
- Wonderful hair, the beauty of Annie Malone, by Eve Nadel Catarevas ; illustrated by Felicia Marshall
- Black abolitionists and freedom fighters, Kimberly Hayes Taylor
- Benjamin Banneker, American mathematician and astronomer, Bonnie Hinman ; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., senior consulting editor
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by Frank Morrison
- Young, gifted and black, too, words by Jamia Wilson ; illustrated by Andrea Pippins
- Portraits of African-American heroes, Tonya Bolden ; paintings by Ansel Pitcairn
- Coretta Scott King, Laura Hamilton Waxman
- I've seen the promised land, the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins
- Beyoncé, shine your light, written by Sarah Warren and illustrated by Geneva Bowers
- Have I ever told you Black lives matter, by Shani King ; illustrated by Bobby C. Martin, Jr
- Black pioneers of science and invention, Louis Haber
- Who is Colin Kaepernick?, by Lakita Wilson ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Holding her own, the exceptional life of Jackie Ormes, words by Traci N. Todd ; pictures by Shannon Wright
- Malcolm X, by Theresa Crushshon
- Historic black women, a gift of heritage
- A quantum life, my unlikely journey from the street to the stars, Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz
- Boundless, Chaunté Lowe
- Pigskins to paintbrushes, the story of football-playing artist Ernie Barnes, by Don Tate
- Proud, living my American dream, Ibtihaj Muhammad