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- Ernest Gaines (born 1933), fiction writer
- Marcus Garvey
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Nikki Giovanni
- Roy Glenn (fiction writer of Is It A Crime, Payback, and others)
- Donald Goines
- Marita Golden
- Charles Gordone (1925-1995), playwright
- Lawrence Otis Graham
- Pamela Thomas-Graham
- Eloise Greenfield (born 1929), children's book author
- Sam Greenlee
- Dick Gregory
- Sutton E. Griggs
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimké
- John Langston Gwaltney, anthropologist, author of Drylongso
- Rosa Guy (1922-2012)
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