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- Michael Baisden
- James Baldwin (1924–1987),
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Leslie Esdaile Banks
- Amiri Baraka
- Steven Barnes
- Carol S. Batey
- Paul Beatty
- Derrick Bell
- Gwendolyn Bennett
- Hal Bennett
- Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- Bertice Berry
- Henry Bibb
- Kole Black
- Chriscinthia Blount (poet, playwright)
- Marita Bonner
- Arna Bontemps
- David Bradley (novelist)
- William Stanley Braithwaite
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Claude Brown
- Hallie Quinn Brown
- Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the District of Columbia
- William Wells Brown
- Ashley Bryan
- Ed Bullins
- Olivia Ward Bush
- Octavia Butler
- Ida B. Wells
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