Tim Story

Film Director Known for "Ride Along" & "Think Like A Man"

Julie Dash

Director & Writer Known for "Daughters of the Dust"; First Black Woman to Direct A Full-Length General Theatrical Release Film in the U.S.

Robert Townsend

Award-Winning Filmmaker & Former CEO of the Black Family Channel

Dee Rees

Director & Screenwriter Known for "Pariah" and "Mudbound"

PARIAH with Dee Rees

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Wes Moore

CEO of Robin Hood Foundation, Best-Selling Author & U.S. Army Veteran

Kenya Barris

Screenwriter, ABC's "Black-ish", Producers Guild Visionary Award Winner, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing

Kenya Barris Wrote a Juneteenth Musical with Pharrell

W. Kamau Bell

Stand-Up Comedian & TV Host; Best Known for "United Shades of America"

Elaine Welteroth

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Award-Winning Journalist, Former Editor in Chief of Teen Vogue & Judge on the New Project Runway

Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Dolores Barclay

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Brian Tyree Henry

Television & Broadway Actor; Best Known for "Atlanta," "If Beale Street Could Talk," & "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"

Marsai Martin

Actress & Producer; Known for "Black-ish" & "Little"

Logan Browning

Actress & Singer-Songwriter; Best Known for Her Roles in "Bratz: The Movie" & Netflix's "Dear White People"

Porsha Williams

Star of Bravo's hit series, "Real Housewives of Atlanta"

Ishmael Beah

Activist; Storyteller from Sierra Leone; Author, "A Long Way Gone"

Charles S. Dutton

Actor & Director Known for "Roc" and "The Piano Lesson"

Lisa Leslie

WNBA Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist & Author of "Don't Let the Lipstick Fool You;" Coach of Ice-Cube's BIG3 Basketball League

Hill Harper

Actor, Author & Philanthropist; Best Known For "CSI: NY" & "The Good Doctor"

Letters to a Young Sister

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

Temple University Professor, BET News Correspondent, Activist, Author