Black studies scholars

American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)

American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)

American author and activist (1952–2021)

American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)

British-American philosopher and writer

African-American scholar

American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

American political scientist and university administrator

African feminist and writer

American author and historian

American poet, essayist, playwright, and the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018. (born 1962)

African-American historian and philosopher; theorist of Afrocentricity

historical and cultural sociologist

American singer, composer, and activist (1942–2024)

American political activist (born 1941)

African-American historian

American sociologist

American fiction writer, memoirist, essayist

American professor of public affairs and African American studies at Columbia University and biographer (1950–2011)

Native American ethnographer

American journalist and professor

American poet

Ghanaian historian (born 1962)

anthropologist and African Studies scholar

American historian

American academic

American historian (1931–2014)

American historian (born 1949)

American writer

African American writer, activist, educator and spoken word artist

American sociologist

American scholar

Black American academic administrator, author (1888–1981)

English literature scholar

African-american feminist scholar and activist

American art historian (1932–2021)

American journalist

American musician