One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a screenplay written by James Baldwin in 1973.

With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together is the 1998 autobiography of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. This couple reflects on their fifty years together, recounting their experiences on stage and screen from the 1940s onwards. They also share their years of political activism and their friendships with notable figures like Malcolm X and Sidney Poitier.

Alex Haley's highly acclaimed book, Roots: Saga of an American Family, published in 1976, narrates the stories passed down from his grandmother about their ancestors, tracing back to a young African ancestor brought to America as a slave. The book inspired a television mini-series and won the 1976 National Book Award as well as the 1977 Lillian Smith Book Award.

Claude McKay's Home to Harlem, first published in 1928, explores the lives of two young black men who experience the vibrant street life of Harlem in the 1920s in contrasting ways.

Alice Walker's 1976 novel, Meridian: A Novel, follows the journey of Meridian, a high school dropout and single mother, as she discovers herself while becoming a courageous civil rights activist.