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- Ron Karenga
- Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), poet
- Elizabeth Keckley
- William Melvin Kelley
- Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (1863–1938)
- Randall Kenan
- Adrienne Kennedy, playwright
- John Oliver Killens
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Woodie King, Jr.
- Etheridge Knight
- Yusef Komunyakaa
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