Scholars in African American Studies
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Molefi Kete Asante
- M.K. Asante, Jr.
- Houston A. Baker Jr.
- Horace Campbell
- Hazel Carby
- Linda Carty
- Bill Cole
- Patricia Hill Collins
- Allison Davis
- Angela Y. Davis
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Michael Eric Dyson
- Gerald Early
- John Hope Franklin
- E. Franklin Frazier
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Paul Gilroy
- Nathan Hare
- Melville Herskovits
- bell hooks
- Charles S. Johnson
- Charles E. Jones
- Jawanza Kunjufu
- Arthur Lewin
- Glenn C. Loury
- Manning Marable
- Janis Mayes
- Micere Mugo
- Mark Anthony Neal
- Adolph Reed
- Cedric Robinson
- Milton Sernett
- Renate Simson
- Robert B. Stepto
- Akinyele Umoja
- Cornel West
- William Julius Wilson
- Carter G. Woodson
- Sylvia Wynter
- Walter Rodney
- Geneva Smitherman
- Oliver Cromwell Cox
- C.L.R. James
- Maulana Karenga
- Kwame Ture
- Itibari M. Zulu
- Oba T'Shaka
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