2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

2006

Fiction

• Third Girl From the Left, Martha Southgate

Fiction Honor

• Snake Walkers, J. Everett Prewitt (Northland)
  I Got Somebody In Staunton, William Henry Lewis

Nonfiction

• Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas, Michael A. Gomez

Honor Nonfiction

• Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-The Unsung Heroes of World War II, Christopher Paul Moore

• Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, Heather Andrea Williams

• Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, Jacqueline Stewart

First Novelist Award

• Freshwater Road, Denise Nicholas

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

• Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists, Lisa E. Farrington

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

2005

Fiction

• Leaving Cecil Street, Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Fiction Honor

• Robbing Peter, Kia DuPree

• Some People, Some Other Place, J. California Cooper (Doubleday)
  The Blackbird Papers, Ian Smith

Nonfiction

• A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, Howard French

Honor Nonfiction

• Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press, Melba Joyce Boyd

• Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire, Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner

First Novelist Award

• The Darkest Child, Delores

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

• Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neal Hurston, Lucy Anne Hurston

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

2004

Fiction

• Hottentot Venus, Barbara Chase-Riboud

Fiction Honor

• Loving Donovan, Bernice McFadden

• Joshua's Bible, Shelly Leanna

Nonfiction

• In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Wil Haygood

Honor Nonfiction

• Freedom in the Family: A Mother-daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights, Tananarive Due & Patricia Stephens Due

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara Ransby

First Novelist Award

• The Known World, Edward P. Jones

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

• Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representations, Michael D. Harris

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

2003

Fiction

• Douglass Women, Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction Honor

• Wisdom, Heather Neff

• P.G. County, Connie Brisco

• You Know Better, Tina McElroy Ansa

Nonfiction

• Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies, Elizabeth McHenry

Honor Nonfiction

• Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems, Nikki Giovanni

• Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing, edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris

• The Herndons: An Atlanta Family, Carole Merritt

First Novelist Award

• The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

• We Shall not Be Moved: The Passage from the Great Migration to the Million Man March, Velma Maia Thomas

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

2002

Fiction

• Pearl Cleage
  I Wish I Had a Red Dress
  (Hardcover, Paperback, Audio Cassette (abridged), Large Print)
  Depicts the struggles of a widow committed to a professional career of helping women achieve and grow.

Fiction Honors

• Colson Whitehead
  John Henry Days, A Novel
  (Hardcover, Paperback, Large Print)
  Immortalizes the African American folk hero, "John Henry".

• Karen Grigsby Bates
  Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel
  (Paperback)
  Journalist helps the police solve the murder of a former colleague and friend.

• Alexs D. Pates
  West of Rehoboth: A Novel
  (Hardcover, Paperback, Large Print)
  A twelve year old boy in Rehoboth, Delaware comes of age while trying to make sense of his uncle’s sadness and despair.

Nonfiction

• Vernon E. Jordan
  Vernon Can Read! A Memoir
  Vernon Jordan recounts the racism he encountered, his civil rights activism, and his work in organizations devoted to improving the lives of African Americans.

Honor Nonfiction

• A’Lelia Bundles
  On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C. J. Walker
  (Hardcover, Paperback, Large Print)
  Biography of one of America’s early entrepreneurs and philanthropists.

• John Edgar Wideman
  Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love
  Essays about growing up in an urban city, poor and black, strengthened and supported by family.

• Gail Lumet Buckley
  American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
  (Hardcover, Library Binding, Paperback)
  Documents contributions of African Americans in the U. S. military.

First Novelist Award

• David Anthony Durham
  Gabriel’s Story
  (Hardcover, Library Binding, Paperback, Large Print)
  A fresh perspective of the 1870s American West as the teenage protagonist leaves home on a quest for adventure.

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation (Excellence in Scholarship)

• Donald Bogle
  Primetime Blues: African Americans On Network Television
  (Hardcover, Paperback)
  Chronicles the history of African Americans in television.

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

2001

Fiction

• Paule Marshall
  The Fisher King

Honor Fiction

• Venise Berry
  All of Me

• Bernice McFadden
  Sugar

 Nonfiction

• Larry Eugene Rivers
  Slavery In Florida: Territorial Days To Emancipation

Honor Nonfiction

• Larry V. Buster
  The Art and History of Black Memorabilia

• Kevin Powell, ed.
  Step Into A World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature

First Novelist Award

• Allen B. Ballard
  Where I’m Bound

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation

• David Levering Lewis
  W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919–1963

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

2000

Fiction

• Valerie Wilson Wesley
  Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do

Honor Fiction

• Toni Cade Bambara
  Those Bones Are Not My Child

• Marc Olden
  The Ghost

• Connie Porter
  Imani All Mine

• Rita Dove
  On The Bus With Rosa Parks: Poems

 Nonfiction

• Adele Logan Alexander
  Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 (1999)

Honor Nonfiction

• Barbara Smith
  B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations

• Dee Parmer Woodtor
  Finding A Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity

First Novelist Award

• Paula L. Woods
  Inner City Blues

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Africana

• Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds.
  The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

1999

 Fiction

• Gayl Jones
  The Healing

Honor Fiction

• Grace F. Edwards
  A Toast Before Dying: A Mali Anderson Mystery

• Eleanor Taylor Bland
  See No Evil

 Nonfiction

• Carolyn Mazloomi
  Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts

Honor Nonfiction

• Juan Williams
  Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
  Keith Michael Brown
  Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing The History of Black Business in America

• Juliet E. K. Walker
  Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

1998

 Fiction

• Sandra Jackson-Opoku
  The River Where Blood Is Born

Honor Fiction

• Dawn Turner Trice
  Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven

• John Calvin Rainey
  The Thang That Ate My Grandaddy's Dog

• Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
  Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made

First Novelist Award

• Brian Keith Jackson
  The View From Here

Nonfiction

• Toi Derricotte
  The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

Honor Nonfiction

• Arnold Rampersad
  Jackie Robinson: A Biography

• Velma Maia Thomas
  Lest We Forget: The Passage From Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book With Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit

• Claude Andrew Clegg
  An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

1997

Fiction

• Florence Ladd
  Sarah’s Psalm

Honor Fiction

• Faye McDonald Smith
  Flight of the Blackbird

• Derrick Bell
  Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home

First Novelist Award

• Sapphire
  Push

Nonfiction

• Nell Irvin Painter
  Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

Honor Nonfiction

• Kennell Jackson
  America Is Me

• Toni Cade Bambara and edited by Toni Morrison
  Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

• Albert Murray
  (Novelist, literature professor, and music scholar)

1996

1996

1996

1996

1996

1996

1996

1996

1996

Fiction

• Walter Mosley
  RL's Dream

Honor Fiction

• A. J. Verdelle
  The Good Negress

First Novelist Award

• devorah majors
  An Open Weave

Nonfiction

• Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen, eds.
  Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men In America

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

• Paula L. Woods, ed.
  Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime & Suspense Fiction

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

1995

Fiction

• Maxine Clair
  Rattlebone

Honor Fiction

• Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell
  I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love

• Linda Raymond
  Rocking the Babies

First Novelist Award

• Helen Elaine Lee 
  The Serpent's Gift

Nonfiction

• Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot 
  I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

Honor Nonfiction

• James Melvin Washington, ed.
  Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African-Americans

• Gerald Early
  Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

• Chester Higgins, Jr. 
  Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

1994

Fiction

• Ernest J. Gaines
  A Lesson Before Dying

Honor fiction

• Lionel Newton
  Getting Right With God

• Michelle Cliff
  Free Enterprise

First Novelist Award

• Alexs D. Pate
  Losing Absalom

Nonfiction

• David Levering Lewis
  W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919

Honor Nonfiction

• Thadious Davis
  Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing

• Darlene C. Hine, ed.
  Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia