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- George Cain
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- Stokely Carmichael
- Ben Carson
- Stephen L. Carter
- Cyrus Cassells
- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), novelist and short-story writer
- Alice Childress (1912-1994), playwright and novelist
- Cheril N. Clarke
- John Henrik Clarke
- Troy CLE
- Pearl Cleage
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Michelle Cliff
- Lucille Clifton
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson
- Wanda Coleman
- Marvel Cooke
- Anna J. Cooper
- J. California Cooper
- James Corrothers (1869-1917)
- Jayne Cortez
- Bill Cosby
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. (1861–1949)
- Donald Crews (born 1938), children's book author
- Stanley Crouch
- Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
- Christopher Paul Curtis
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