* The Underground Railroad
* The Hope Chest
* The Family Line
Short story collections:
* Love in a Different Season
* The Back of Beyond
Nonfiction:
* Slavery and the Making of America
* African Americans in the Civil War
* The History of Hip Hop
Children's books:
* The Story of the Underground Railroad
* The Boy Who Built a Railroad
* The Girl Who Loved to Write
Poetry collections:
* Echoes from the Cotton Fields
* Voices from the Diaspora
* The Fire Next Time
Plays:
* The Ballad of Emmett Till
* The Blacker the Berry
* The Colored Museum