| 2011 |
Fiction |
Glorious, Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books) |
| |
Nonfiction |
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Wes Moore (Random House) |
| |
Honor Book |
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism, Keith Gilyard (University of Georgia Press) |
| |
Honor Book |
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, Wilbert Rideau (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| |
First Novelist |
Wench, Dolen Perkins-Valdez (HarperCollins) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
Unfinished Blues: Memories of a New Orleans Music Man, Harold Battiste Jr. and Karen Celestan (The Historic New Orleans Collection) |
| 2010 |
Fiction |
Buying Time, Pamela Samuels Young (Goldman House) |
| |
Honor Book |
Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) |
| |
Honor Book |
Carried by Six, Allen Ballard (Seaford Press) |
| |
Nonfiction |
The Breakthrough, Gwen Ifill (Doubleday) |
| |
Honor Book |
Freedom Struggles, Adriane Lentz-Smith (Harvard University Press |
| |
First Novelist |
My Sister's Veil, K.C. Marshall (XLibris) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
In Search of Our Roots, Henry Louis Gates (Crown Publishers) |
| 2009 |
Fiction |
Trading Dreams at Midnight, Diane McKinney-Whetstone (HarperCollins) |
| |
Honor Book |
Seen It All and Done the Rest, Pearl Cleage (One World/Ballentine) |
| |
Honor Book |
Where the Line Bleeds, Jesmyn Ward (Agate Bolden) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Ida: A Sword Among Lions, Paula J. Giddings (Amistad/Harper Collins) |
| |
Honor Book |
Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou (Random House, Inc) |
| |
First Novelist |
Orange Mint & Honey, Carleen Brice (One World/Ballentine) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs, Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida (Amistad/ HarperCollins) |
| 2008 |
Fiction |
New England White, Stephen L. Carter, (Knopf) |
| |
Honor Book |
Cold Running Creek, Zelda Lockhart (LaVenson Press) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Ralph Ellison: A Biography, Arnold Rampersad (Knopf) |
| |
Honor Books |
Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher (Doubleday)
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith, Tommie Smith with David Steele (Temple University Press) |
| |
First Novelist |
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More, Chantal Ellen (Lion's Den Publishing) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, Deborah Willis (Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture) |
| 2007 |
Fiction |
After, A Novel, Marita Golden (Doubleday) |
| |
Honor Books |
Fortunate Son, Walter Mosley (Little Brown and Co.)
Jump at The Sun, Kim McLarin (William Morror) |
| |
Nonfiction |
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Barack Obama (Crown) |
| |
Honor Books |
A Piece of Cake, Cupcake Brown (Crown)
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Harriett A. Washington (Doubleday)
|
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
Legacy: Treasures of Black History (National Geographic Press) |
| 2006 |
Fiction |
Third Girl From the Left, Martha Southgate (Houghton
Mifflin) |
| |
Honor Books |
Snake Walkers, J. Everett Prewitt (Northland)
I Got Somebody In Staunton, William Henry Lewis (Amistad) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African
Muslims in the Americas, Michael A. Gomez (Cambridge
University Press) |
| |
Honor Books |
Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-The Unsung Heroes
of World War II, Christopher Paul Moore (One World)
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and
Freedom, Heather Andrea Williams (University of North
Carolina Press)
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity,
Jacqueline Stewart (University of California Press |
| |
First Novelist |
Freshwater Road, Denise Nicholas (Agate) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American
Women Artists, Lisa E. Farrington (Oxford University
Press) |
| 2005 |
Fiction |
Leaving Cecil Street, Diane McKinney-Whetstone
(William Morrow) |
| |
Honor Books |
Robbing Peter, Kia DuPree (Prism Pages
Some
People, Some Other Place, J. California Cooper (Doubleday)
The Blackbird Papers, Ian Smith (Doubleday)
|
| |
Nonfiction |
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of
Africa, Howard French (Alfred A. Knopf) |
| |
Honor Books |
Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside
Press, Melba Joyce Boyd (Columbia University Press)
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American
Millionaire, Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner (One
World) |
| |
First Novelist |
The Darkest Child, Delores Phillips (Soho) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neal
Hurston, Lucy Anne Hurston (Doubleday) |
| 2004 |
Fiction |
Hottentot Venus, Barbara Chase-Riboud (Doubleday) |
| |
Honor Books |
Loving Donovan, Bernice McFadden (Dutton)
Joshua's Bible, Shelly Leanne (Warner Books) |
| |
Nonfiction |
In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Wil Haygood (Knopf) |
| |
Honor Books |
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-daughter Memoir of the
Fight for Civil Rights, Tananarive Due & Patricia
Stephens Due (Ballantine)
Ella Baker and the Black
Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara
Ransby (UNC Press) |
| |
First Novelist |
The Known World, Edward P. Jones (Amistad) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representations,
Michael D. Harris (UNC Press) |
| 2003 |
Fiction |
Douglass' Women, Jewell Parker Rhodes (Atria/Simon
& Schuster) |
| |
Honor Books |
Wisdom, Heather Neff (One World/Ballantine)
P.G. County, Connie Briscoe (Doubleday)
You
Know Better, Tina McElroy Ansa (William Morrow) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African
American Literary Societies, Elizabeth McHenry (Duke
University Press) |
| |
Honor Books |
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems,
Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow)
Gumbo: A Celebration
of African American Writing, edited by Marita Golden
and E. Lynn Harris (Harlem Moom/Broadway Books)
The
Herndons: An Atlanta Family, Carole Merritt (University
of Georgia Press) |
| |
First Novelist |
The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L. Carter (Alfred
A. Knopf) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
We Shall not Be Moved: The Passage from the Great Migration
to the Million Man March, Velma Maia Thomas (Crown) |
| 2002 |
Fiction |
I Wish I Had a Red Dress, Pearl Cleage (William
Morrow) |
| |
Honor Books |
John Henry Days, A Novel, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel, Karen
Grigsby Bates (Avon Books)
West of Rehoboth,
Alexs D. Pates (William Morrow) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, Vernon E. Jordan (PublicAffairs) |
| |
Honor Books |
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J.
Walker, A'Lelia Bundles (Scribner)
Hoops Roots:
Basketball, Race and Love, John Edgar Wideman (Houghton
Mifflin)
American Patriots: The Story of Black in
the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm, Gail
Lumet Buckley (Random House) |
| |
First Novelist |
Gabriel's Story, David Anthony Durham (Doubleday) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
Primetime Blues: African Americans On Network Television,
Donald Bogle (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) |
| 2001 |
Fiction |
The Fisher King, Paule Marshall (Scribner) |
| |
Honor Books |
All of Me, Venise Berry (Dutton)
Sugar,
Bernice McFadden (Dutton) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days To Emancipation,
Larry Eugene Rivers (University Press of Florida) |
| |
Honor Books |
The Art and History of Black Memorabilia, Larry
W. Buster (Clarkson Potter)
Step Into A World: A Global
Anthology of New Black Literature, edited by Kevin Powell
(John Wiley & Sons) |
| |
First Novelist |
Where I'm Bound, Allen Br. Ballard (Simon &
Schuster) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American
Century 1919-1963, David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt &
Co.) |
| 2000 |
Fiction |
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Valerie Wilson
Wesley (Avon Books) |
| |
Honor Books |
Those Bones Are Not My Child, Ton Cade (Pantheon
Books)
The Ghost, March Olden (Simon & Schuster)
Imani All Mine, Connie Porter (Houghton Mifflin)
On The Bus With Rosa Parks: Poems, Rita Dove (W.W.
Norton & Co.) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Homeland and Waterways: The American Journey of the
Bond Family 1846-1926, Adele Logan Alexander (Pantheon
Books) |
| |
Honor Books |
B.Smith: Rituals & Celebrations, Barbara Smith
(Random House)
Finding A Place Called Home: A Guide
to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity,
Dee Parmer Woodtor (Random House) |
| |
First Novelist |
Inner City Blues, Paula Woods (W.W.Norton &
Co.) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African
American Experience, edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Basic Civitas Books) |
| 1999 |
Fiction |
The Healing, Gayl Jones (Beacon Press) |
| |
Honor Books |
A Toast Before Dying: A Mali Anderson Mystery,
Grace F. Edwards (Doubleday)
See No Evil, Eleanor Taylor Bland (St. Martin's Press) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American
Quilts, Carolyn Mazloomi (Clarkson Potter) |
| |
Honor Books |
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, Juan
Williams (Times Books)
Sacred Bond: Black Men and
Their Mothers, Keith Michael Brown (Little, Brown) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism,
Race, Entrepreneurship, Juliet E.K. Walker (Macmillan) |
| 1998 |
Fiction |
The River Where Blood Is Born, Sandra Jackson-Opoku,
(One World/Ballantine) |
| |
Honor Books |
Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven, Dawn Turner
Trice (Crown)
The Thang That Ate My Grandaddy's Dog,
John Calvin Rainey (Pineapple Press)
Tryin' to Sleep
in the Bed You Made, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
(St. Martin's Press) |
| |
Nonfiction |
The Black Notebook: An Interior Journery, Toi Derricotte
(Norton) |
| |
Honor Books |
Jackie RobinsonL A Biography, Arnold Rampersad
(Knopf)
Lest We Forget: The Passage From Africa to
Slavery and Emanicipation: A Three Dimensional Interactive
Book With Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust
Exhibit, Velma Maia Thomas (Crown)
An Original
Man: The Life and Times Elijah Muhammad, Claude Andrew
Clegg (St. Martin's Press) |
| |
First Novelist |
The View From Here, Brian Keith Jackson (Washington
Square Press) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
Black Classic Press |
| 1997 |
Fiction |
Sarah's Psalm, Florence Ladd (Scribner) |
| |
Honor Books |
Flight of the Blackbird, Faye McDonald Smith (Scribner)
Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called
Home, Derrick Bell (Basic Books) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, Nell Irvin Painter
(Norton) |
| |
Honor Books |
America Is Me, Kennell Jackson (HarperCollins)
Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and
Conversations, Toni Cade Bambara and edited by Toni Morrison
(Pantheon) |
| |
First Novelist |
Push, Sapphire (Knopf) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation |
|
| 1996 |
Fiction |
RL's Dream, Walter Mosley (W.W. Norton) |
| |
Honor Books |
The Good Negress, A.J. Verdelle (Algonquin Books
of Chapel Hill) |
| |
Nonfiction |
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men In America, edited
by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen (One World/Ballantin Books) |
| |
First Novelist |
An Open Weave, devorah majors (Seal Press) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: The Black Mystery,
Crime & Suspense Fiction, edited by Paula L. Woods
(Bantam Doubleday) |
| 1995 |
Fiction |
Rattlebone, Maxine Clair (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) |
| |
Honor Books |
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love,
Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell (Anchor Books) |
| |
Nonfiction |
I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation,
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (Addison-Wesley) |
| |
Honor Books |
Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by
African-Americans, edited by James Melvin Washington
(Harper Collins)
Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood,
Gerald Early (Addison-Wesley) |
| |
First Novelist |
The Serpent's Gift, Helen Elaine Lee (Atheneum) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citation |
Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People
of Africa, Chester Higgins, Jr. (Bantam) |
| 1994 |
Fiction |
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines (Knopf) |
| |
Honor Books |
Getting Right With God, Lionel Newton (Dutton)
Free Enterprise, Michelle Cliff (Dutton) |
| |
Nonfiction |
W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919. David
Levering Lewis (Holt) |
| |
Honor Books |
Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Reniassance: A
Woman's Life Unveiled, Thadious Davis (Louisiana State
University Press) |
| |
First Novelist |
Losing Absalom, Alexs D. Pate (Cofee House Press) |
| |
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Citatiion |
Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia,
edited by Darlene C. Hine (Carlson Publishing) |
