Sheree Renée Thomas, Samuel R. Delany, Henry Dumas, Nalo Hopkinson, Tananarive Due, Nisi Shawl, Walter Mosley, Octavia E. Butler, Steven Barnes, Akua Lezli Hope, Charles W. Chesnutt, Jewelle Gomez, Linda Addison, W.E.B. Du Bois, Amiri Baraka, Charles R. Saunders, Kalamu ya Salaam, Leone Ross, Paul D. Miller, Tony Medina, Evie Shockley, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Derrick A. Bell, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Robert Fleming, Ama Patterson, Darryl A. Smith