Nominations 2014 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
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| Donald Yacovone |
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
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| Deborah Willis |
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
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| Barbara Krauthamer |
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
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| Retha Powers |
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World
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| Hill Harper |
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
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| Carl Hart |
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
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Nominations 2013 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Spiegel & Grau |
Fraternity
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| Jeffrey Toobin |
The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
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| Deborah Davis |
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
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| Constance L. Rice |
Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
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| Shirley Sherrod |
The Courage to Hope
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Nominations 2012 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Hill Harper |
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place
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| Melissa Harris-Perry |
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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| Russell Simmons |
Super Rich
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| Elijah Anderson |
The Cosmopolitan Canopy
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| Touré |
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
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Nominations 2011 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tom Burrell |
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority
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| Faith S. Holsaert |
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
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| Judy Richardson |
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
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| Martha Prescod Norman Noonan |
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
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| Betty Garman Robinson |
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
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| Jean Smith Young |
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
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| Dorothy M. Zellner |
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC
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| Julianne Malveaux |
Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History
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| Nell Irvin Painter |
The History of White People
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| Michelle Alexander |
The New Jim Crow
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Nominations 2010 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Crown |
| Arnold Mann |
Brain Surgeon: A Doctor\u2019s Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles
Grand Central Publishing |
| Keith Black |
Brain Surgeon: A Doctor\u2019s Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles
Grand Central Publishing |
| Gil Robertson IV |
Family Affair: What It Means to be African American Today
Agate Bolden |
| Cynthia Carter |
Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum
National Geographic Books |
| Al Gore |
Our Choice
Rodale Inc. |
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Nominations 2009 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Maya Angelou |
Letter to My Daughter
Random House |
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Nominations 2008 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Don Cheadle |
Not On Our Watch
Hyperion |
| John Prendergast |
Not On Our Watch
Hyperion |
| Randall Robinson |
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
Basic Civitas Books/Perseus |
| Edwidge Danticat |
Brother, I\u2019m Dying
Alfred A. Knopf/RH |
| Michael Dyson |
Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop
Basic Civitas Books/Perseus |
| M. Dujon Johnson |
Race and Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes Toward Africans and African-Americans
Authorhouse |
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Nominations 2007 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barack Obama |
The Audacity of Hope
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| Michael Dyson |
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
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| Tavis Smiley |
The Covenant with Black America
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| William C. Rhoden |
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
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| Gil Robertson IV |
Not In My Family: AIDS in the African American Community
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Nominations 2006 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Dyson |
Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has The Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
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| Stanley Williams |
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
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| Manning Marable |
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters and Speeches
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| Myrlie Evers-Williams |
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters and Speeches
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| Anthony Asadullah Samad |
50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality in America
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| John McWhorter |
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America
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Nominations 2005 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Michael Dyson |
Why I love Black women
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Nominations 2003 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Tavis Smiley |
Keeping the Faith
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| Maya Angelou |
A Song Flung Up To Heaven
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| DeWayne Wickham |
Bill Clinton and Black America
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| Ilyasah Shabazz |
Growing Up X
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| Carla Kaplan |
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
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Nominations 2002 »
| Nominee |
Nominated Work |
| Barbara Chase-Riboud |
Sally Hemings
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