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- Citizen King, a ROJA Productions film for American experience ; in association with the BBC and WGBH Boston ; produced, directed and written by Orlando Bagwell and W. Noland Walker
- The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr, edited by Clayborne Carson
- Black history, from civil war through today
- Having our say, the Delany sisters' first 100 years, by Sarah Louise and Annie Elizabeth Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth
- Redemption, Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours, Joseph Rosenbloom
- Be free or die, the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero, Cate Lineberry
- Martin Luther King Jr., [by] Josh Gregory
- Frederick Douglass, by William S. McFeely
- The house of hidden meanings, a memoir, RuPaul
- Slave narratives
- The butler, a witness to history, Wil Haygood
- Truevine, two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South, Beth Macy
- Manchild in the promised land, Claude Brown ; with a new introduction by Nathan McCall
- The dead are arising, the life of Malcolm X, Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Black heroes of the American Revolution, Burke Davis ; foreword by Edward W. Brooke
- Unchained memories, readings from the slave narratives, an HBO Documentary Film in association with the Library of Congress ; producers, Jacqueline Glover, Thomas Lennon ; writer, Mark Jonathan Harris ; directors, Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon
- The grail guitar, the search for Jimi Hendrix's "Purple haze" Telecaster, Chris Adams
- The misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae
- As good as anybody, Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom, by Richard Michelson ; illustrated by Raul ColoĢn
- W.E.B. Du Bois, the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis
- For love of liberty, the story of America's black patriots : [a film], [by Frank Martin]
- The dream, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation, Drew D. Hansen
- The Hemingses of Monticello, an American family, Annette Gordon-Reed
- Kamala's way, an American life, Dan Morain
- Bone black, memories of girlhood, Bell Hooks
- Black history, a retrospective, Cine-O-Matic, Inc
- Dreams from my father, a story of race and inheritance, Barack Obama
- Black American history, by Ronda Racha Penrice
- King, a life, Jonathan Eig
- Truevine, two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South, Beth Macy
- Addy, an American girl, by Connie Porter
- Blood brothers, the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
- The sword and the shield, the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Peniel E. Joseph
- Coretta Scott, Scholastic ; Weston Woods presents ; produced by Paul R. Gagne [and] Melissa R. Ellard ; directed by Melissa R. Ellard
- Illustrated Black history, honoring the iconic and the unseen, George McCalman with April Reynolds
- Beyond the shores, a history of African Americans abroad, Tamara J. Walker
- Booker T. Washington, Black leadership in the age of Jim Crow, Raymond W. Smock
- Martin's big words, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Doreen Rappaport ; illustrations by Brian Collier
- The autobiographies, Frederick Douglass
- Condoleezza Rice, [an American life : a biography], Elisabeth Bumiller
- King, a filmed record : Montgomery to Memphis
- The Slaves' war, the Civil War in the words of former slaves, Andrew Ward
- Let the trumpet sound, a life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Stephen B. Oates
- Kamala's way, an American life, Dan Morain
- Greyboy, finding blackness in a white world, Cole Brown ; foreword by Elaine Welteroth ; afterword by Michael Eric Dyson
- The road to dawn, Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War, Jared A. Brock
- Portraits of African-American heroes, Tonya Bolden ; paintings by Ansel Pitcairn
- Up from slavery, by Booker T. Washington ; introduction by Walter H. Page
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup ; introduction by Eric Ashley Hairston
- The undiscovered Paul Robeson, an artist's journey, 1898-1939, Paul Robeson, Jr