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- Jeffrey Daniels
- Angela Davis
- Frank Marshall Davis
- Kyra Davis
- Samuel R. Delany (born 1942), novelist
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Anita Doreen Diggs
- Lonnie Dixon
- Frederick Douglass
- Rita Dove
- Sharon Draper
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Henry Dumas
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), poet
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- David Anthony Durham
- Michael Eric Dyson
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