| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
| 2000 | - | - | - |
| 2000 | If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks | Faith Ringgold | |
| 2000 | God Inside of Me | Della Reese | |
| 2000 | Happy to Be Nappy | Bell Hooks | |
| 2000 | The Day I Was Rich | Bill Cosby | |
| 2000 | Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | |
| 2001 | - | - | - |
| 2001 | Shades of Black | Sandra Pinkney | |
| 2001 | Dancing in the Wings | Debbie Allen | |
| 2001 | Nikki Giovanni, Poet of the People | Judith Pinkerton Josephson | |
| 2001 | Teens Can Make It Happen | Stedman Graham | |
| 2001 | The Sound That Jazz Makes | Carole Boston Weatherford | |
| 2002 | - | - | - |
| 2002 | Just the Two of Us | Will Smith and Kadir Nelson | |
| 2003 | - | - | - |
| 2003 | Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales | Nelson Mandela | |
| 2004 | - | - | - |
| 2004 | My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Christine King Farris | |
| 2004 | The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Sabrina Crewe and Frank Walsh | |
| 2004 | God Created | Mark Bozzuti-Jones | |
| 2004 | Li'l Dan, the Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story | Romare Bearden | |
| 2004 | Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? | Slade Morrison | |
| 2005 | - | - | - |
| 2005 | The 1963 Civil Rights March | Scott Ingram | |
| 2005 | African Princess: The Amazing Lives of Africa's Royal Women | Joyce Hanson | |
| 2005 | Ellington Was Not a Street | Ntozake Shange | |
| 2005 | Langston's Train Ride | Robert Burleigh | |
| 2005 | Maya's World: Angelina of Italy | Maya Angelou | |
| 2006 | - | - | - |
| 2006 | Girls Hold Up This World | Jada Pinkett Smith | |
| 2006 | I Can Make a Difference | Marian Wright Edelman | |
| 2006 | The School Is Not White! A True Story of the Civil Rights Movement | Doreen Rappaport | |
| 2006 | Honey Baby Sugar Child | Alice Faye Duncan | |
| 2006 | Please, Puppy, Please | Spike Lee | |
| 2007 | - | - | - |
| 2007 | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Carole Boston Weatherford | |
| 2007 | Dear Mr. Rosenwald | Carole Boston Weatherford | |
| 2007 | I Like You But I Love Me | Common | |
| 2007 | Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round | Doreen Rappaport | |
| 2007 | Whoopi's Big Book of Manners | Whoopi Goldberg | |
| 2008 | - | - | - |
| 2008 | Nothing but Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson | Sue Stauffacher | |
| 2008 | Friendship for Today | Patricia McKissack | |
| 2008 | Elijah of Buxton | Christopher Paul Curtis | |
| 2008 | Let It Shine | Ashley Bryan | |
| 2008 | Young Pele | Lesa Cline-Ransome | |
| 2009 | - | - | - |
| 2009 | Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope | Nikki Grimes | |
| 2009 | Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem | Maya Angelou | |
| 2009 | Say a Little Prayer | Dionne Warwick | |
| 2009 | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Kadir Nelson | |
| 2009 | You Can Do It! | Tony Dungy | |
| 2010 | - | - | - |
| 2010 | Our Children Can Soar | Michelle Cook | |
| 2010 | The Negro Speaks of Rivers | Langston Hughes | |
| 2010 | Peeny Butter Fudge | Toni Morrison | |
| 2010 | Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble | Whoopi Goldberg | |
| 2010 | Child of the Civil Rights Movement | Paula Young Shelton | |
| Year | Work | Author | Ref |
| 2011 | - | - | - |
| 2011 | My Brother Charlie | Holly Robinson Peete | |
| 2011 | Grandma’s Gift | Eric Velasquez | |
| 2011 | Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya | Donna Jo Napoli | |
| 2011 | Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez | Monica Brown | |
| 2011 | The Great Migration: Journey to the North | Eloise Greenfield | |
| 2012 | - | - | - |
| 2012 | You Can Be a Friend | Tony Dungy | |
| 2012 | Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band | Kwame Alexander | |
| 2012 | Before There Was Mozart | Lesa Cline-Ransome | |
| 2012 | Heart and Soul | Kadir Nelson | |
| 2012 | White Water | Michael S. Bandy | |
| 2013 | - | - | - |
| 2013 | What Color is My World | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | |
| 2013 | Fifty Cents and a Dream | Jabari Asim | |
| 2013 | Harlem's Little Blackbird | Renee Watson | |
| 2013 | In the Land of Milk and Honey | Joyce Carol Thomas | |
| 2013 | Indigo Blume and the Garden City | Kwame Alexander | |
| 2014 | - | - | - |
| 2014 | Nelson Mandela | Kadir Nelson | |
| 2014 | I'm A Pretty Little Black Girl! | Betty K. Bynum | |
| 2014 | Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me | Daniel Beaty | |
| 2014 | Martin & Mahalia: His Words, Her Song | Andrea Davis Pinkney | |
| 2014 | You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! | Jonah Winter | |
| 2015 | - | - | - |
| 2015 | Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After | Rachel Renee Russell, Nikki Russell, and Erin Russell | |
| 2015 | Beautiful Moon | Tonya Bolden | |
| 2015 | Little Melba and Her Big Trombone | Katheryn Russell-Brown | |
| 2015 | Malcolm Little | Ilyasah Shabazz | |
| 2015 | Searching for Sarah Rector | Tonya Bolden | |
| 2016 | - | - | - |
| 2016 | Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America | Carole Boston Weatherford | |
| 2016 | Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts | Nikki Grimes | |
| 2016 | Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box | Michael S. Bandy | |
| 2016 | If You Plant a Seed | Kadir Nelson | |
| 2016 | New Shoes | Susan Lynn Meyer | |
| 2017 | - | - | - |
| 2017 | Tiny Stitches: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas | Gwendolyn Hooks | |
| 2017 | A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day | Andrea Davis Pinkney | |
| 2017 | Daddy’s Little Girl | Karissa Culbreath | |
| 2017 | Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat | Javaka Steptoe | |
| 2017 | The Golden Girls of Rio | Nikkolas Smith | |
| 2018 | - | - | - |
| 2018 | Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History | Vashti Harrison | |
| 2018 | Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld | |
| 2018 | Before She Was Harriet | Lesa Cline-Ransome, James E. Ransome | |
| 2018 | Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! | Andrea J. Loney, Keith Mallett | |
| 2018 | The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, A Young Civil Rights Activist | Cynthia Levinson, Vanessa Brantley-Newton | |
| 2019 | - | - | - |
| 2019 | Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race | Margot Lee Shetterly, Laura Freeman | |
| 2019 | Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, A Monumental American Man | Tonya Bolden | |
| 2019 | I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can't | Diane Dillon | |
| 2019 | The 5 O'Clock Band | Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, Bryan Collier | |
| 2019 | The Word Collector | Peter H. Reynolds | |
| 2020 | | - | - |
| 2020 | Sulwe | Lupita Nyong'o, Vashti Harrison | |
| 2020 | A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation | Barry Wittenstein, Jerry Pinkney | |
| 2020 | Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry, Vashti Harrison | |
| 2020 | Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment | Parker Curry, Jessica Curry, Brittany Jackson | |
| 2020 | Ruby Finds a Worry | Tom Percival | |
