June Jordan (1936–2002)

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1. June Jordan

   Author of Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays, Affirmative Acts, His Own Where.

2. bell hooks

   Author of Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, killing rage: Ending Racism, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

3. Alice Walker

   Author of In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult

4. Audre Lorde

   Author of Zami, The Cancer Journals: Special Edition, Our Dead Behind Us: Poems

5. Nikki Giovanni

   Author of Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems, Those Who Ride the Night Winds

6. Toni Cade Bambara

   Author of The Salt Eaters, Those Bones Are Not My Child: A Novel, The Black Woman: An Anthology

7. Jewelle Gomez

   Author of Forty-Three Septembers: Essays, Don't Explain: Short Fiction, Oral Tradition: Selected Poems Old & New

8. Sonia Sanchez

   Author of Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak), Homegirls and Handgrenades, Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums (Bluestreak Series)

9. Adrienne Rich

   Author of The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977, Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972, An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991

10. Angela Davis

    Author of Women, Race & Class, Are Prisons Obsolete?, The Angela Y. Davis Reader (Blackwell Readers)

11. Minnie Bruce Pratt

    Author of S/He, Crime Against Nature, Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991

12. Ntozake Shange

    Author of Sassfrass, Cypress and Indigo, Betsey Brown, Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter

13. Paule Marshall

    Author of Brown Girl, Brownstones, Praisesong for the Widow, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

14. Jamaica Kincaid

    Author of An Autobiography of My Mother, Mr. Potter: A Novel, Talk Stories

15. Gwendolyn Brooks

    Author of Selected Poems, Maud Martha, Blacks

16. Lucille Clifton

    Author of Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 (American Poets Continuum), The Book of Light, the terrible stories (American Poets Continuum)

17. Marge Piercy

    Author of The Moon Is Always Female, Circles on the Water, Available Light

18. Amiri Baraka

    Author of Black Music, The Autobiography of Leroi Jones, Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones.

19. Cherríe Moraga

    Author of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Loving in the War Years

20. Sapphire

    Author of American Dreams, Black Wings & Blind Angels: Poems