| Dion Graham | |
| Occupation: | Actor, narrator |
| Years Active: | 1992–present |
Dion Graham is an American actor and narrator. As an actor, he has worked both on and off-Broadway, as well as in TV series and film. As of April 2024, he has narrated at least 280 audiobooks.[1] He has earned a place on AudioFile magazine's list of Golden Voice Narrators, as well as Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame. Further, he has won 11 Audie Awards, 71 Earphone Awards, 3 Listen-Up Awards, and 1 Odyssey Award.
Book Riot called Graham "the best of the best" in audiobook narration, saying, "His voice is rich and emotive, making even the driest bits of a long biography or history come alive. His ability to inhabit characters seems limitless; his myriad character accents are always flawless."[2]
Graham grew up in Cincinnati[3] and lives in New York City.[4] [5]
His on-screen acting career began in 1992 when he played a role in Malcolm X. Throughout the 1990s, he appeared in other shows, such as Law & Order, and performed on- and off-Broadway.
Graham highlights two key moments in his life as being influential to his career as an audiobook narrator. First, a roommate of his requested that he record James Joyce’s story "The Dead" for a long road trip. Months later, Graham listened to the recording and found it "compelling;" he also remembered enjoying the process of recording the story. A few years later, Graham was performing a Tennessee Williams play at the Royal National Theatre when an acquaintance encouraged him to consider audiobooks. His first audiobook narration was published in 2000.
Since 2000, Graham has given voice to many Black characters and narrated classic works by African American authors, including Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, James Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man, and Chester Himes's The Big Gold Dream.
Throughout his career as an audiobook narrator, Graham has continued to act both on- and off-screen, including television shows such as The Wire, The Good Wife, and Madam Secretary.
Graham has earned a place on AudioFile magazine's list of Golden Voice Narrators,[6] as well as Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame. In 2012, Booklist honored him with a Voice of Choice award. He has been named Publishers Weekly
Further, he has won 11 Audie Awards, 71 Earphone Awards, 3 Listen-Up Awards, and 1 Odyssey Award.
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Other narrator(s) | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Bombingham (2001) | Earphones Award | [8] | |||
| West of Rehoboth (2001) | Earphones Award | [9] | ||||
| 2005 | I Got Somebody in Staunton (2005) | , Lizan Mitchell, and Ezra Knight | Earphones Award | [10] | ||
| 2006 | Dancing in the Dark (2005) | Earphones Award | [11] | |||
| River Rising (2005) | Earphones Award | [12] | ||||
| 2007 | (2007) | Earphones Award | [13] | |||
| 2008 | Cadillac Orpheus | Listen-Up Award for Fiction | [14] | |||
| Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans | Earphones Award | [15] | ||||
| Pepperfish Keys (2007) | Earphones Award | [16] | ||||
| River Rising | Audie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction | [17] | ||||
| 2009 | Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (2007) | Earphones Award | [18] | |||
| (2009) | Earphones Award | [19] |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | List | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | What is the What (2006) | AudioFile Best Fiction | |||
| 2008 | Chasing the Devil’s Tail | AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense | |||
| 2009 | (2009) | AudioFile Best Mystery and Suspense |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Other narrator(s) | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | (2000) | Earphones Award | [20] | |||
| Peace, Locomotion | Audie Award for Young Adult Title | [21] | ||||
| Odyssey Award | [22] [23] [24] | |||||
| (2010) | Earphones Award | [25] | ||||
| We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball | Odyssey Award | [26] | ||||
| You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2003) | Earphones Award | [27] | ||||
| 2011 | The Big Gold Dream (1960) | Earphones Award | [28] | |||
| Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson (2010) | Earphones Award | [29] | ||||
| Audie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction | [30] | |||||
| Going to Meet the Man (1957) | Earphones Award | [31] | ||||
| Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices (2010) | Muhammad Cunningham, Michael Early, Patricia R. Floyd, Kevin R. Free, Arthur French, Nathan Hinton, Ezra Knight, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Gail Nelson, Monica Patton, and Charles Turner | Earphones Award | [32] | |||
Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West (2006) | Earphones Award | [33] | ||||
| Looking Like Me | Earphones Award | [34] | ||||
| (2010) | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | [35] | ||||
| Audie Award for Young Adult Title | ||||||
| William's Leap For Freedom | (adaptation) with assistance by Sue Zizza | and a full cast | Audie Award for Original Work | |||
| Pick-Up: A Full Day of Full Court (2011) | , Charles R. Smith, Jr., Walter Dean Myers, Bruce Brooks, Willie Perdomo, Robert Burleigh, Rita Williams-Garcia, Joseph Bruchac, and Adam Rapp | Earphones Award | [36] | |||
| Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners | , Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones, Sam Guncler, and Anne Bobby | Earphones Award | [37] | |||
| 2012 | Astray | Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren | Earphones Award | [38] | ||
| Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson (2010) | Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title | [39] | ||||
| Going to Meet the Man (1957) | Audie Award for Solo Narration – Male | |||||
| Hologram for the King | Listen-Up Award for Fiction | [40] | ||||
| Locomotion | Earphones Award | [41] | ||||
| Looking Like Me | Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title | |||||
| (1989) | and Quincy Troupe | Earphones Award | [42] | |||
| Listen-Up Award for Audiobook of the Year | [43] | |||||
| Listen-Up Award for Audiobook Reader of the Year | ||||||
| Listen-Up Award for Nonfiction | ||||||
| Pick-Up Game | and Charles R. Smith Jr., et al. | Quincy Tyler | Audie Award for Young Adult Title | |||
| 2013 | Astray | Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren | Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections | [44] [45] | ||
| Letter from a Birmingham Jail | Listen-Up Award for Audiobook of the Year | [46] | ||||
| Listen-Up Award for Nonfiction | ||||||
| Miles The Autobiography (1989) | and Quincy Troupe | American Library Association Listen List | [47] | |||
| Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners | , Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones, Sam Guncler, and Anne Bobby | Audie Award for Audio Drama | ||||
| We Are America | , Olivia DuFord, Lizan Mitchell, Christopher Myers, Walter Dean Myers, Johanna Parker, Adriana Sananes, and Kaipo Schwab | Audie Award for Distinguished Achievement in Production | [48] | |||
| Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title | ||||||
| 2014 | H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (2012) | Earphones Award | [49] | |||
| Letter from a Birmingham Jail | Audie Award for Original Work | [50] [51] | ||||
| METAtropolis: Green Space | , et al. | Robin Miles, Mark Boyett, Scott Brick, Allyson Johnson, Sanjiv Jhaveri, Jennifer Van Dyck, and Jonathan Davis | Audie Award for Original Work | |||
| 2015 | 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World (2015) | William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck, and Carter Woodson Redwood | Earphones Award | [52] | ||
| Book: My Autobiography (2014) | Earphones Award | [53] | ||||
| Five Pieces of Jade (1972) | Earphones Award | [54] | ||||
| H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (2012) | Odyssey Award | [55] [56] | ||||
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) | Dylan Baker, Laverne Cox, Barbara Rosenblat, and a full cast | Earphones Award | ||||
| and Delia Sherman | , Barbara Rosenblat, Katherine Kellgren, Simon Jones | Audie Award for Audio Drama | [57] | |||
| X: A Novel | and Kekla Magoon | Earphones Award | [58] | |||
| 2016 | Grimms Fairy Tales (1812) | Brothers Grimm | Jim Dale, Janis Ian, Alfred Molina, Katherine Kellgren, and a full cast | Earphones Award | [59] | |
| Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar | Bahni Turpin | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | [60] | |||
| My Name is Not Friday (2016) | Earphones Award | [61] | ||||
| Song Machine | Audie Award for Nonfiction | |||||
| X: A Novel | and Kekla Magoon | Audie Award for Young Adult Title | ||||
| 2017 | 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World (2015) | William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck, and Carter Woodson Redwood | Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title | [62] | ||
| (1974) | Earphones Award | [63] | ||||
| Dear Martin (2017) | Earphones Award | [64] | ||||
| Audie Award for Nonfiction | ||||||
| My Greatest: My Own Story | with Richard Durham | Audie Award for Autobiography or Memoir | ||||
| Trombone Shorty (2015) | Earphones Award | [65] | ||||
| 2018 | American Histories: Stories (2018) | Earphones Award | [66] | |||
| Down the River Unto the Sea (2018) | Earphones Award | [67] | ||||
| Finding Langston (2018) | Earphones Award | [68] | ||||
| Fresh Ink: An Anthology (2018) | (editor) | , Kim Mai Guest, Bahni Turpin, Ron Butler, et al. | Earphones Award | [69] | ||
| (2018) | Earphones Award | [70] | ||||
| Trombone Shorty (2015) | Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title | [71] | ||||
| Odyssey Award | [72] [73] [74] | |||||
| Washington Black (2018) | Earphones Award | [75] | ||||
| 2019 | Birthday Suit (2019) | , Sebastian York, January LaVoy, Julia Whelan, R.C. Bray, Shane East, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon, Savannah Peachwood, Jason Clarke, and Robin Miles | Earphones Award | [76] | ||
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) | Earphones Award | [77] | ||||
| (1996) | Earphones Award | [78] | ||||
| Coming Through Slaughter (1976) | Earphones Award | [79] | ||||
| Finding Langston (2018) | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | [80] | ||||
| Her Right Foot | Dave Eggars | Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title | ||||
| Jump Back, Paul (2015) | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | |||||
| The Starless Sea (2019) | , Bahni Turpin, Fiona Hardingham, Allan Corduner, and Jorjeana Marie | Earphones Award | [81] |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Other narrator(s) | List | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | (2000) | AudioFile Best Biography & Memoir | ||||
| Peace, Locomotion | Notable Children's Recordings | |||||
| They Called Themselves the K.K.K. | AudioFile Best Young Adult | |||||
| 2011 | Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson (2010) | AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening | ||||
| Looking Like Me | AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening | |||||
| (2010) | AudioFile Best Young Adult | |||||
| 2012 | (1989) | and Quincy Troupe | AudioFile Best Biography & Memoir | |||
| Locomotion | AudioFile Best Children | |||||
| Looking Like Me | Notable Children's Recordings | |||||
| 2013 | AudioFile Best Fiction | |||||
| Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site | Notable Children's Recordings | [82] | ||||
| 2014 | Behind Enemy Lines | AudioFile Best Children | ||||
| H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (2012) | AudioFile Best Children | |||||
| 2015 | In the Heat of the Night | AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense | ||||
| AudioFile Best Mystery & Suspense | ||||||
| X: A Novel | and Kekla Magoon | AudioFile Best Young Adult | ||||
| 2016 | My Name is Not Friday (2016) | AudioFile Best Young Adult | ||||
| My Greatest: My Own Story | Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham | AudioFile Best Memoir | ||||
| 2017 | Trombone Shorty (2015) | AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening | ||||
| Flying Lessons and Other Stories | AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening | |||||
| 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World (2015) | William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck, and Carter Woodson Redwood | AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening | ||||
| 2018 | Finding Langston (2018) | AudioFile Best Children & Family Listening | ||||
| Washington Black | AudioFile Best Fiction | |||||
| 2019 | Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) | AudioFile Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Other narrator(s) | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics (2008) | Earphones Award | [83] | |||
| Birthday Suit (2019) | , Sebastian York, January LaVoy, Julia Whelan, R.C. Bray, Shane East, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon, Savannah Peachwood, Jason Clarke, and Robin Miles | Audie Award for Audio Drama | [84] [85] | |||
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) | Audie Award for Fantasy | |||||
| Blood in the Water | Audie Award for Thriller or Suspense | |||||
| Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom (2020) | Earphones Award | [86] | ||||
| Clean Getaway (2020) | Earphones Award | [87] | ||||
| Dear Justyce (2020) | Earphones Award | [88] | ||||
| Leaving Lymon (2020) | Earphones Award | [89] | ||||
| Little Family (2020) | Earphones Award | [90] | ||||
| Lovely War (2019) | , Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, Fiona Hardingham, John Lee, Nathaniel Parker, and Steve West | Audie Award for Young Adult Title | ||||
| Overground Railroad (2020) | and Lesa Cline-Ransome (author's note) | Earphones Award | [91] | |||
| Trouble is What I Do (2020) | Earphones Award | [92] | ||||
| When Stars Are Scattered (2020) | and Omar Mohamed | , Barkhad Abdi, Robin Miles, Ifrah Mansour, Bahni Turpin, Hakeemshady Mohamed, Sadeeq Ali, Dominic Hoffman, Christine Avila, and a full cast | Earphones Award | [93] | ||
| 2021 | Concrete Rose (2021) | Earphones Award | [94] | |||
| and Tamara Payne | Audie Award for History or Biography | [95] | ||||
| Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) | and Keisha N. Blain (editors) | , Kevin R. Free, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Angela Y. Davis, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and a Full Cast | Earphones Award | [96] | ||
| Harlem Shuffle (2021) | Earphones Award | [97] | ||||
| Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories (2021) | Earphones Award | [98] | ||||
| Milo Imagines the World (2021) | Earphones Award | [99] | ||||
| The Overground Railroad (2020) | Audie Award for Young Listeners' Title | [100] | ||||
| Playing the Cards You're Dealt (2021) | Earphones Award | [101] | ||||
| Songdogs (1995) | Earphones Award | [102] | ||||
| (1958) | with Victor LaValle (foreword) | Kirsten Potter | Earphones Award | [103] | ||
| This Side of Brightness (2013) | Earphones Award | [104] | ||||
| Trouble Is What I Do (2020) | Audie Award for Mystery | |||||
| 2022 | Animals (2021) | Earphones Award | [105] | |||
| Blackout | , Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | , Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J. Beckles, and Bahni Turpin | Audie Award for Short Stories or Collections | [106] | ||
| and Peter Nystrom | Audie Award for Mystery | |||||
A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation (2022) | and David Blissett with Dr. Jane Goodall (foreword) | (foreword) | Earphones Award | [107] | ||
| Concrete Rose (2021) | Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults | [108] | ||||
| Dirty Bird Blues (1996) | with Yusef Komunyakaa (foreword) and John Beckman (introduction) | Earphones Award | [109] | |||
| Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) | and Keisha N. Blain (editors) | , Kevin R. Free, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Angela Y. Davis, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and a Full Cast | Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance | |||
| His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2022) | and Toluse Olorunnipa | and Toluse Olorunnipa (introduction) | Earphones Award | [110] | ||
| and Marin Ireland | Audie Award for Fiction | |||||
| A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age (2022) | Earphones Award | [111] | ||||
| Playing the Cards You're Dealt | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | |||||
| (2022) | Earphones Award | [112] | ||||
| (1926) | Earphones Award | [113] | ||||
| 2024 | Coleman Hill | Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance | [114] | |||
| Audie Award for History or Biography | ||||||
| Audie Award for Nonfiction Narrator | ||||||
| Audie Award for Nonfiction Narrator | ||||||
| Poverty, by America (2023) | Audie Award for Nonfiction | |||||
| Tread of Angels (2022) | Audie Award for Fantasy | |||||
| (2023) | Audie Award for History or Biography | |||||
| Audie Award for Nonfiction Narrator |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Other narrator(s) | List | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Charlotte's Web (1952) | Audie Award for Middle Grade Title | |||
| Overground Railroad (2020) | and Lesa Cline-Ransome (author's note) | AudioFile Best Children's Books | |||
| When Stars Are Scattered (2020) | and Omar Mohamed | , Barkhad Abdi, Robin Miles, Ifrah Mansour, Bahni Turpin, Hakeemshady Mohamed, Sadeeq Ali, Dominic Hoffman, Christine Avila, and a full cast | AudioFile Best Children's Books | ||
| 2021 | Concrete Rose (2021) | AudioFile Best Young Adult of 2021 | |||
| Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) | and Keisha N. Blain (editors) | , Kevin R. Free, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Angela Y. Davis, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and a Full Cast | AudioFile Best History & Biography | [115] | |
| Harlem Shuffle (2021) | AudioFile Best Fiction |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Other narrator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Bombingham (2001) | ||
| West of Rehoboth (2001) | |||
| 2005 | I Got Somebody in Staunton (2005) | Kevin R. Free, Lizan Mitchell, and Ezra Knight | |
| 2006 | Dancing in the Dark (2005) | ||
| River Rising (2005) | |||
| 2007 | (2007) | ||
| 2008 | Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans | ||
| Pepperfish Keys (2007) | |||
| 2009 | Peace, Locomotion | ||
| Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (2007) | and Bruce Henderson | ||
| (2009) | |||
| We Are the Ship |
| Year | Title | Author | Other Narrator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | (2000) | ||
| (2010) | |||
| You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2003) | |||
| 2011 | Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson (2010) | ||
| Going to Meet the Man (1957) | |||
| Looking Like Me | |||
| 2012 | Astray | Khristine Hvam, James Langton, Robert Petkoff, and Suzanne Toren | |
| Locomotion | |||
| Miles The Autobiography (1989) | and Quincy Troupe | ||
| Pick-Up Game | and Charles R. Smith, Jr., et al. | Quincy Tyler | |
| Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners | , Katherine Kellgren, Robert Fass, Nick Sullivan, Simon Jones, Sam Guncler, and Anne Bobby | ||
| We Are America | , Olivia DuFord, Lizan Mitchell, Christopher Myers, Walter Dean Myers, Johanna Parker, Adriana Sananes, and Kaipo Schwab | ||
| 2014 | H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination (2012) | ||
| and Delia Sherman | , Barbara Rosenblat, Katherine Kellgren, Simon Jones | ||
| 2015 | 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World (2015) | William Jackson Harper, Zainab Jah, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Lizan Mitchell, Jonathan Earl Peck, and Carter Woodson Redwood | |
| Book: My Autobiography (2014) | |||
| Five Pieces of Jade (1972) | |||
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) | Dylan Baker, Laverne Cox, Barbara Rosenblat, and a full cast | ||
| X: A Novel | and Kekla Magoon | ||
| 2016 | |||
| My Greatest: My Own Story | Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham | ||
| 2017 | (1974) | Carl Sagan | |
| Dear Martin (2017) | |||
| Trombone Shorty (2015) | |||
| 2018 | American Histories: Stories (2018) | ||
| Down the River Unto the Sea (2018) | |||
| Finding Langston (2018) | |||
| Fresh Ink: An Anthology (2018) | (editor) | , Kim Mai Guest, Bahni Turpin, Ron Butler, et al. | |
| (2018) | |||
| Washington Black (2018) | |||
| 2019 | Birthday Suit (2019) | , Sebastian York, January LaVoy, Julia Whelan, R.C. Bray, Shane East, Joe Arden, Erin Mallon, Savannah Peachwood, Jason Clarke, and Robin Miles | |
| Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) | |||
| Blood in the Water (2019) | Jack Flynn | ||
| Lovely War (2019) | Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, Fiona Hardingham, John Lee, Nathaniel Parker, and Steve West |
| Year | Title | Author(s) | Other narrator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | American Savior: A Novel of Divine Politics (2008) | ||
| Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom (2020) | |||
| Clean Getaway (2020) | |||
| and Tamara Payne | |||
| Dear Justyce (2020) | |||
| Leaving Lymon (2020) | |||
| Little Family (2020) | |||
| Overground Railroad (2020) | and Lesa Cline-Ransome (author's note) | ||
| Trouble is What I Do (2020) | |||
| When Stars Are Scattered (2020) | and Omar Mohamed | , Barkhad Abdi, Robin Miles, Ifrah Mansour, Bahni Turpin, Hakeemshady Mohamed, Sadeeq Ali, Dominic Hoffman, Christine Avila, and a full cast | |
| 2021 | Concrete Rose (2021) | ||
| Four Hundred Souls A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (2021) | and Keisha N. Blain (editors) | , Kevin R. Free, January LaVoy, Robin Miles, Angela Y. Davis, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and a Full Cast | |
| Harlem Shuffle (2021) | |||
| and Marin Ireland | |||
| Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories (2021) | |||
| Milo Imagines the World (2021) | |||
| Playing the Cards You're Dealt (2021) | |||
| Songdogs (1995) | |||
| (1958) | with Victor LaValle (foreword) | Kirsten Potter | |
| This Side of Brightness (2013) | |||
| Trouble Is What I Do (2020) | |||
| 2022 | Animals (2021) | ||
| Blackout | , Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon | , Imani Parks, Jordan Cobb, Shayna Small, A.J. Beckles, and Bahni Turpin | |
| and Peter Nystrom | |||
| The Chimpanzee Whisperer: A Life of Love and Loss, Compassion and Conservation (2022) | and David Blissett with Dr. Jane Goodall (foreword) | (foreword) | |
| Dirty Bird Blues (1996) | with Yusef Komunyakaa (foreword) and John Beckman (introduction) | ||
| His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2022) | and Toluse Olorunnipa | and Toluse Olorunnipa (introduction) | |
| Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age (2022) | |||
| (2022) | |||
| (1926) | |||
| 2023 | (2023) |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Elijah Muhammad's FOI | ||
| 1994 | Biography | Narrator / Self | 1 episode: Mike Tyson: Fallen Champ | |
| 1995 | New York News | Subway cop | 1 episode: Thin Line | |
| 1997 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Curtis Lambright | 1 episode: Saigon Rose | |
| 1998 | Law & Order | Smith | 1 episode: Punk | |
| 1999 | Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War | Voiceover | ||
| 2000 | American Experience | Narrator | 1 episode: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory | |
| Culture Shock | Narrator / Self | 1 episode: The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz | ||
| Third Watch | Crews | 1 episode: Young Men and Fire | ||
| 2001 | Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Defense Attorney | ||
| 2002 | Samuel Hill | 1 episode: Waste | ||
| 2003 | Hack | Slavitt | 1 episode: Signature | |
| Narrator | 1 episode: Railroaded in Texas | |||
| Law & Order | Ron Hamilton | 1 episode: Floater | ||
| NYPD Blue | Troy Miner | 1 episode: Shear Stupidity | ||
| 2004 | American Experience | Narrator | 2 episodes | |
| Detective Waites | 1 episode: Consumed | |||
| Gallery Tours | Narrator | 4 episodes | ||
| 2005 | Voice | |||
| 2006 | State's Attorney Rupert Bond | 2 episodes | ||
| 2007 | Art of the Heist | Narrator | ||
| I Love New York | Self | 13 episodes | ||
| Law & Order | Principal Ron Hill | 1 episode: Good Faith | ||
| 2006-2008 | Flavor of Love | Narrator / Self | 27 episodes | |
| State's Attorney Rupert Bond | 8 episodes | |||
| 2008 | Gossip Girl | FBI Agent | 1 episode: The Magnificent Archibalds | |
| 2010 | FBI Agent Dowley | 1 episode: Penetration | ||
| Solved | Narrator / Self | 6 episodes | ||
| 2011 | Joey Church | 1 episode: Silly Season | ||
| Felix Iresso / Marcus Trant / Officer Mal | ||||
| 2013 | TSA Officer #2 | |||
| Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel | Felix Iresso / Regulator Guard | |||
| 2009-2014 | After the First 48 | Narrator | 7 episodes | |
| 2014 | Star Wars: The Old Republic - Shadow of Revan | Felix Iresso | ||
| 2014-2015 | Madam Secretary | Diplomatic Security Head Agent Fred Cole | 5 episodes | |
| 2015 | Larry Johnson | |||
| Star Wars: The Old Republic - Knights of the Fallen Empire | Felix Iresso | |||
| 2016 | Mercy | Dr. Turner | ||
| Dominic | ||||
| 2018 | Elementary | Hakeem | 1 episode: The Adventure of the Ersatz Sobekneferu | |
| Voice | ||||
| 2019 | Narrator | 3 episodes | ||
| FBI | ASAC Tom Andrews | 1 episode: Appearances | ||
| Star Wars: The Old Republic - Onslaught | Additional Voices | |||
| 2020 | Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom | |||
| 2021 | Gib Horn | 1 episode: 16 Ounces | ||
| 2021 | The Daily | Self | 1 episode: From the Sunday Read Archive: My Mustache, My Self | |
| 2004-2022 | The First 48 | Narrator / Self | 486 episodes |