- Kirkus Reviews, August 26, 2023: “What Do Brothas Do All Day?”
- KALW.org, March 22, 2023: “Artist Ajuan Mance shows the beauty and complexities of ‘Living While Black’
- YES! Magazine, March 7, 2023: “Drawing While: A Reflection on Art, Activism, and Ancestry,” by Ajuan Mance
- KALW.org, February 9, 2023: “Sights and Sounds: Ajuan Mance”
- Apple Newsroom, June 17, 2022: “Chronicling the faces of Juneteenth with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil”
- Apple.com, June 2022: “Fostering Diversity and Representation through Art”
- Bay Area Reporter, April 26, 2022: “The Art of Ajuan Mance at the Cartoon Museum”
- Bread Central, April 2022: “The Art of Ajuan Mance at the Cartoon Museum” by Laura Moreno
- Sagittarian Matters Podcast, September 1, 2021: Interview by Nicole Georges
- Bay Times, August 25, 2021: “Ajuan Mance: Black Art from the Edge of the Universe”
- Literature and Medicine, Volume 39, Number 1, Spring 2021: “#LivingWhileBlack,” Illustrations by Ajuan Mance
- Art Heals All Wounds Podcast,March 15, 2021: Interview by Pam Uzzell
- The Baylies, September 24, 2020: Interview by Lawrence Lindell
- Publisher’s Weekly, July 16, 2019: “Panel Mania: Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival Edited by Diane Noomin”
- Black Girls Create, April 1, 2019: Interview
- BET.com: Artist Highlights Nuances of Black Life in 1001 Black Men (Slideshow)
- Queer Words Podcast, February 5, 2019: Interview by Wayne Goodman
- CBS News Bay Area, April 1, 2018: “Drawing from Life, East Bay Artist Depicts Black Men’s Truth”
- Blavity News, December 7, 2017: “See The Beautiful Portraits Oakland Artist Ajuan Mance Drew Of 1,001 Black Men” by the Blavity Team
- The Women’s Review of Books: November / December 2017: “Healing History: Reviewed Work: Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 by MK Czerwiec”
- SFGate, November 5, 2017: “An Oakland Artist Drew 1,001 Portraits of Black Men” by MIchelle Robertson
- KQED,org, July 20, 2017: “How Drawing 1001 Black Men Helped an Artist to See” by Lakshmi Sarah
- The Women’s Review of Books, January/February 2017: “The Writer’s Jubilee,” comic by Ajuan Mance
- PrismComics, org, August 13, 2016: Spotlight on Ajuan Mance
- “Artforum, Summer 2016: “Susan E. Cahan’s Mounting Frustration; The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” by Julia Bryan Wilson
- We Want the Airwaves, May 31, 2015: Episode 45, Interview by Nia King
- “1001 Black Men, a Series of Portraits by Ajuan Mance”: A short film by Pam Uzzell
- SF Gate, January 8, 2014: “‘Art of Living Black’: Works of more than 50 artists”
- San Francisco Bay View, May 20, 2013: “Black Male Objectification in the Media wit’ Visual Artist Ajuan Mance”
- Transition No. 112, Django Unpacked : “Looking Sharp” by Terri Francis, with illustrations from the 1001 Black Men Sketchbook by Ajuan Mance