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2010
Fiction:  Buying time by Pamela Samuels Young
Honor book:  Sag Harbor : a novel by Colson Whitehead
Honor book:  Carried by six : a novel by Allen Ballard
Non-fiction:  The breakthrough : politics and race in the age of Obama by Gwen Ifill
Honor book:  Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I by Adriane Lentz-Smith
First novel:  My sister's veil by K.C. Marshall
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  In search of our roots : how 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past by Henry Louis Gates

2009
Fiction:  Trading dreams at midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Honor book:  Seen it all and done the rest by Pearl Cleage
Honor book:  Where the line bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
Non-fiction:  Ida : a sword among lions : Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching by Paula J. Giddings
Honor book:  Letter to my daughter by Maya Angelou
First novel:  Orange mint and honey by Carleen Brice
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Obama : the historic campaign in photographs by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida

2008
Fiction:  New England white by Stephen L. Carter
Honor book:  Cold Running Creek by Zelda Lockhart
Non-fiction:  Ralph Ellison : a biography by Arnold Rampersad
Honor books:  Supreme discomfort : the divided soul of Clarence Thomas by Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher
Silent gesture : autobiography of Tommie Smith by Tommie Smith with David Steele
First novel:  The rise : where neighbors are sometimes more by Chantal Ellen
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Let your motto be resistance : African American portraits by Deborah Willis

2007
Fiction:  After : a novel by Marita Golden
Honor books:  Fortunate son by Walter Mosley
Jump at the sun by Kim McLarin
Non-fiction:  The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream by Barack Obama
Honor books:  A piece of cake : a memoir by Cupcake Brown
Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Harriett A. Washington
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Legacy : treasures of black history, edited by Thomas C. Battle and Donna M. Wells

2006
Fiction:  Third girl from the left by Martha Southgate
Honor books:  Snake walkers by J. Everett Prewitt
I got somebody in Staunton : stories by William Henry Lewis
Non-fiction:  Black crescent : the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas by Michael A. Gomez
Honor books:  Fighting for America : black soldiers, the unsung heroes of World War II by Christopher Paul Moore
Self-taught : African American education in slavery and freedom by Heather Andrea Williams
Migrating to the movies : cinema and Black urban modernity by Jacqueline Stewart
First novel:  Freshwater road by Denise Nicholas
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists by Lisa E. Farrington

2005
Fiction:  Leaving Cecil Street : a novel by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Honor books:  Robbing Peter by Kia DuPree
Some people, some other place : a novel by J. California Cooper
The blackbird papers by Ian Smith
Nonfiction:  A continent for the taking : the tragedy and hope of Africa by Howard French
Honor books:  Wrestling with the muse : Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press by Melba Joyce Boyd
Black Titan : A.G. Gaston and the making of a Black American millionaire by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner
First novel:  The darkest child by Delores Phillips
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Speak, so you can speak again : the life of Zora Neal Hurston by Lucy Anne Hurston

2004
Fiction:  Hottentot Venus : a novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Honor books:  Loving Donovan : a novel in three stories by Bernice L. McFadden
Joshua's bible by Shelly Leanne
Nonfiction:  In black and white : the life of Sammy Davis, Jr. by Wil Haygood
Honor books:  Freedom in the family : a mother-daughter memoir of the fight for civil rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision by Barbara Ransby
First novel:  The known world by Edward P. Jones
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Colored pictures : race and visual representation by Michael D. Harris

2002
Fiction:  I wish I had a red dress : a novel by Pearl Cleage
Honor books:  John Henry Days : a novel by Colson Whitehead
Plain brown wrapper : an Alex Powell novel by Karen Grigsby Bates
West of Rehoboth by Alexs D. Pates
Nonfiction:  Vernon can read! : a memoir by Vernon E. Jordan
Honor books:  On her own ground : the life and times of Madam C.J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles
Hoop roots by John Edgar Wideman
American patriots : the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley
First novel:  Gabriel’s story by David Anthony Durham
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Prime time blues : African Americans on network television by Donald Bogle

2001
Fiction:  The fisher king : a novel by Paule Marshall
Honor books:  All of me : a voluptuous tale by Venise T. Berry
Sugar by Bernice McFadden
Nonfiction:  Slavery in Florida : territorial days to emancipation by Larry Eugene Rivers
Honor books:  The art and history of black memorabilia by Larry V. Buster
Step into a world : a global anthology of the new Black literature edited by Kevin Powell
First novel:  Where I’m bound by Allen B. Ballard
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  W.E.B. DuBois--the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis

2000
Fiction:  Ain't nobody's business if I do by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Honor books:  Those bones are not my child by Toni Cade Bambara
The ghost by Marc Olden
Imani all mine by Connie Porter
On the bus with Rosa Parks : poems by Rita Dove
Nonfiction:  Homelands and waterways : the American journey of the Bond family, 1846-1926 by Adele Logan Alexander
Honor books:  B. Smith : rituals & celebrations by Barbara Smith
Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity by Dee Parmer Woodtor
First novel:  Inner city blues by Paula L. Woods
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.

1999
Fiction:  The healing by Gayl Jones
Honor books:  A toast before dying : a Mali Anderson mystery by Grace F. Edwards
See no evil by Eleanor Taylor Bland
Nonfiction:  Spirits of the cloth : contemporary African-American quilts by Carolyn Mazloomi
Honor books:  Thurgood Marshall : American revolutionary by Juan Williams
Sacred bond : Black men and their mothers by Keith Michael Brown
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  The history of Black business in America : capitalism, race, entrepreneurship by Juliet E. K. Walker

1998
Fiction:  The river where blood is born by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Honor books:  Only twice I've wished for heaven : a novel by Dawn Turner Trice
The thang that ate my grandaddy's dog by John Calvin Rainey
Tryin' to sleep in the bed you made by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
First novel:  The view from here by Brian Keith Jackson
Nonfiction:  The black notebooks : an interior journey by Toi Derricotte
Honor books:  Jackie Robinson : a biography by Arnold Rampersad
Lest we forget : the passage from Africa to slavery and emancipation by Velma Maia Thomas
An original man : the life and times of Elijah Muhammad by Claude Andrew Clegg III
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:  Black Classic Press

1997
Fiction:  Sarah’s psalm by Florence Ladd
Honor books:  Flight of the blackbird : a novel by Faye McDonald Smith
Gospel choirs : psalms of survival for an alien land called home by Derrick Bell
First novel:  Push : a novel by Sapphire
Nonfiction:  Sojourner Truth : a life, a symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
Honor books:  America is me : 170 fresh questions and answers on Black American history by Kennell Jackson
Deep sightings and rescue missions : fiction, essays, and conversations by Toni Cade Bambara and edited by Toni Morrison
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing:  Albert Murray (novelist, literature professor, and music scholar)

1996
Fiction:  RL's dream by Walter Mosley
Honor book:  The good Negress by A. J. Verdelle
Nonfiction:  Brotherman : the odyssey of black men in America, edited by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen
First novel:  An open weave by devorah major
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing:  Spooks, spies, and private eyes : Black mystery, crime & suspense fiction, edited by Paula L. Woods

1995
Fiction:  Rattlebone by Maxine Clair
Honor books:  I hear a symphony : African Americans celebrate love by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell
Rocking the babies by Linda Raymond
Nonfiction:  I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Honor books:  Conversations with God : two centuries of prayers by African Americans edited by James Melvin Washington
Daughters : on family and fatherhood by Gerald Early
First novel:  The serpent's gift by Helen Elaine Lee
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing:  Feeling the spirit : searching the world for the people of Africa by Chester Higgins, Jr.

1994
Fiction:  A lesson before dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Honor books:  Getting right with God by Lionel Newton
Free enterprise by Michelle Cliff
First novel:  Losing Absalom : a novel by Alexs D. Pate
Nonfiction:  W.E.B. DuBois--biography of a race, 1868-1919 by David Levering Lewis
Honor books:  Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance : a woman's life unveiled by Thadious Davis
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing:  Black women in America : an historical encyclopedia edited by Darlene C. Hine