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| Parent company | Black Classic Press |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Founder | W. Paul Coates |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Distribution | Publishers Group West |
| Fiction genres | Non-fiction and fiction |
| Imprints | Black Classic Press W.M. DuForcelf INPRINT EDITIONS |
| Official website | blackclassicbooks.com |
Black Classic Press (BCP) is an African-American book publishing company, founded by W. Paul Coates in 1978. Since then, BCP has published original titles by notable authors including Walter Mosley, John Henrik Clarke, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, and Dorothy B. Porter, as well as reissuing significant works by Tony Martin, Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Blyden, J. E. Casely Hayford, Bobby Seale, J. A. Rogers, and others.
An affiliated company is BCP Digital Printing, established in 1995 to serve as the printer for Black Classic Press as well as for other companies and organizations.