The voices of poets broadly categorised as black American understandably speak of injustice, but individually and collectively they also provide a uniquely eloquent contribution to English language poetry.
- Maya Angelou - Come and be my baby
- Maya Angelou - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
- Maya Angelou - Life Doesn't Frighten Me
- Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman
- Maya Angelou - Still I Rise
- Gwendolyn Brooks - Old Mary
- Gwendolyn Brooks - The Bean Eaters
- Gwendolyn Brooks - The Mother
- Gwendolyn Brooks - We Real Cool
- Lucille Clifton - homage to my hips
- Lucille Clifton - To a Dark Moses
- Lucille Clifton - won't you celebrate with me
- Paul Laurence Dunbar - My Little March Girl
- Paul Laurence Dunbar - We Wear the Mask
- Amanda Gorman - The Hill We Climb
- Robert Hayden - Middle Passage
- Robert Hayden - Those Winter Sundays
- Langston Hughes - Dreams
- Langston Hughes - Harlem
- Langston Hughes - I, Too, Sing America
- Langston Hughes - Mother to Son
- Langston Hughes - The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Langston Hughes - Theme for English B
- Audre Lorde - Power