Retired Selections
- "Mother to Son" - Langston Hughes
- "Negro Mother" - Langston Hughes
- "Freedom Train" - Langston Hughes
- "Dreams" - Langston Hughes
- "The Reason I Like Chocolate" - Nikki Giovanni
- "The Creation" - James Weldon Johnson
- "Justice in America" - Gigi Watson
- "Honey, I Can be Whatever I Want to Be" - Gigi Watson
- "Last Will and Testament" - Mary McLeod Bethune
- "Little Sould Sister" - Useni Eugene Perkins
- "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." - Lucille H. Giles & Useni Euguene Perkins
- "Honey, I Love" - Eloise Greenfield
- "Way Down in the Music" - Eloise Greenfield
- "Harriet Tubman" - Eloise Greenfield
- "I Have a Dream" - Martin Luther King
- "Phenomenal Woman" - Maya Angelou
- "Midway" - Naomi Long Madgett
- "Essence 25" - Kephra Burns
- "Still I Rise" - Maya Angelou
- "Daddy's Little Girl" - Linda Michelle Baron
- "Equality" - Maya Angelou
- "Ain't That Bad" - Maya Angelou
- "Ego Trip" - Nikki Giovanni
- "To the Forlorn Black Child of the 21st Century" - Aimée Pringlie
- "Fire" - Langston Hughes
- "Just Like Job" - Maya Angelou
- "My Poem"Nikki - Giovanni
- "Why Did You Make Me Black" - RuNett Nia Ebo
- "I am Somebody" - Gigi Watson
- "We Are Cool" - Gwendolyn Brooks
- "I Too" - Langston Hughes
- "Ain't I A Woman" - Sojourner Truth
- "Life is Fine" - Langston Hughes
- "Booker T. and WEB" - Dudley Randall
- "We Wear the Mask" - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- "To Be Young Gifted and Black" - Martin Luther King
- "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" - Maya Angelou
- "Alone" - Maya Angelou
- "I, Too Sing America" - Langston Hughes
- "Still, I Rise" - Maya Angelou
- "Dreams" - Langston Hughes