| Year |
Category |
Title |
Author |
| 2010 |
Fiction |
Buying Time |
Pamela Samuels Young |
| Non-Fiction |
The Breakthrough |
Gwen Ifill |
| 2009 |
Fiction |
Trading Dreams at Midnight |
Diane McKinney-Whetstone |
| Non-Fiction |
Ida: A Sword Among Lions |
Paula J. Giddings |
| 2008 |
Fiction |
New England White |
Stephen L. Carter |
| Non-Fiction |
Ralph Ellison: A Biography |
Arnold Rampersad |
| 2007 |
Fiction |
After, A Novel |
Marita Golden |
| Non-Fiction |
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream |
Barack Obama |
| 2006 |
Fiction |
Third Girl From the Left |
Martha Southgate |
| Non-Fiction |
Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas |
Michael A. Gomez |
| 2005 |
Fiction |
Leaving Cecil Street |
Diane McKinney-Whetstone |
| Non-Fiction |
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa |
Howard French |
| 2004 | Fiction |
Hottentot Venus |
Barbara Chase-Rihoud |
| Non-Fiction |
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. |
Wil Haygood |
| 2003 |
Fiction |
Douglass' Women |
Jewell Parker Rhodes |
| Non-Fiction |
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies |
Elizabeth McHenry |
| 2002 |
Fiction |
I Wish I Had a Red Dress |
Pearl Cleage |
| Non-Fiction |
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir |
Vernon E. Jordan |
| 2001 |
Fiction |
The Fisher King |
Paule Marshall |
| Non-Fiction |
Slavery In Florida: Territorial Days To Emancipation |
Larry Eugene Rivers |
| 2000 |
Fiction |
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do |
Valerie Wilson Wesley |
| Non-Fiction |
Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family 1846-1926 |
Adele Logan Alexander |
| 1999 |
Fiction |
The Healing |
Gayl Jones |
| Non-Fiction |
Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts |
Carolyn Mazloomi |
| 1998 |
Fiction |
The River Where Blood Is Born |
Sandra Jackson-Opoku |
| Non-Fiction |
|
Toi Derricotte |
| 1997 |
Fiction |
Sarah's Psalm |
Florence Ladd |
| Non-Fiction |
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol |
Nell Irvin Painter |
| 1996 |
Fiction |
RL's Dream |
Walter Mosley |
| Non-Fiction |
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men In America |
Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen (editors) |
| 1995 |
Fiction |
Rattlebone |
Maxine Clair |
| Non-Fiction |
I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation |
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot |
| 1994 |
Fiction |
A Lesson Before Dying |
Ernest J. Gaines |
| Non-Fiction |
W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919 |
David Levering Lewis |
