African-American women writers

lawyer and former First Lady of the United States (2009-2017)

American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)

American singer (1950–2015)

American science fiction writer (1947-2006)

American television producer, television and film writer, and author

American science fiction and fantasy writer

American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host

American actress, writer and producer

American communist anarchist labor organizer (1853–1942)

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

American actress and singer (1931-2017)

American actress and playwright

American writer, director, producer, TV host and transgender rights activist

American poet

American pornographic actress

American author

American television correspondent, model, Miss USA 2019 (1991–2022)

American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer

Somali-American writer (1971-)

American actress, writer and television producer

American director and screenwriter

American writer

American actress, screenwriter and film producer

American television broadcaster (born 1960)

American speculative fiction author (1971-)

American author and journalist

American writer

American singer

American dressmaker and author (1818–1907)

American writer (born 1947)

American political strategist and commentator

African-American feminist, author, and atheist activist

American writer and spiritualist

American judge

African American nurse & writer (1848-1912)

American writer and transgender rights activist

(1957-2016), Afroamerican drag queen

American inspirational speaker, lawyer, spiritual teacher, author, life coach and television personality

American academic of African-American studies

American-British playwright, novelist, critic and broadcaster

American comedian

American writer

Mashonda Karima Dean (née Tifrere; born January 9, 1978) is an American R&B singer from Boston, Massachusetts. In 2004, she married record producer Swizz Beatz and signed with his record label Full Surface Records, an imprint of J Records to release her debut studio album, January Joy (2005). In 2011, Dean joined the first season of VH1's reality show Love & Hip Hop: New York.

American novelist, children's and young adult writer (born 1943)

American musician

American theologian, first African American woman ordained by the Catawba Presbytery of the Presbyterian church (1950–2018)

American political scientist

American filmmaker

American poet

American art exhibition curator and journalist

American actress and screenwriter

American writer (1940-2010)

American suffragist

American writer

American pastor

American writer

American storyboard artist, comic illustrator and animator

American writer

American film producer

journalist (born 1982)