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- Kalamu ya Salaam
- Sonia Sanchez
- Dori Sanders
- Sapphire
- Charles R. Saunders
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
- George Schuyler
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Sandra Seaton
- Victor Séjour
- Tupac Shakur
- Ntozake Shange
- Iceberg Slim
- Amanda Smith
- Charles Smith
- Effie Waller Smith (1879–1960), poet
- William Gardner Smith (1927–1974)
- Thomas Sowell
- Sister Souljah
- A. B. Spellman
- Anne Spencer
- Aurin Squire
- Theophilus Gould Steward (1843–1924)
- Brianna Stewart
- Maria W. Stewart
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