Adwoa Aboah

Model, Actor, Fashion Editor, Activist & Creator of Gurls Talk Organization

Alfonso Ribeiro

Host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, Actor, TV Director, Award-Winning Dancer & Broadway Star

Ally Love

Host, Model, Dancer & Peloton Instructor

Amanda Seales

Poet, Spoken Word Artist & Media Personality Known for HBO's "Insecure;" Anti-Smoking Activist

Angela Bassett

Award-Winning Actress & Co-Founder of Bassett/Vance Productions

Angelica Ross

Founder of TransTech Social Enterprises & Actress in the FX Drama "Pose"

Annette Gordon-Reed

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

Ayo Tometi

Human Rights Advocate, Strategist, Writer & Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter Movement

Bakari Sellers

Author, Attorney, Political Commentator & Youngest African American Elected Official in the U.S.

Baratunde Thurston

Futurist Comedian, Writer & Cultural Critic

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Barry Jenkins

Writer & Director of the Academy Award-Winning "Moonlight"

Boots Riley

Rapper, Producer, Screenwriter & Director; Known for "Sorry To Bother You"

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Brandon Leake

Award-Winning Spoken Word Poet & Artistic Educator

Brian Tyree Henry

Academy Award-Nominated Actor Known for "Atlanta," "If Beale Street Could Talk" & "Causeway"

Brittney Cooper

Feminist Scholar & Author of "Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women"

Chardelle Moore

Founder & CEO of Motivational Moore, Award-Winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Storyteller, Television Anchor, Poet

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Renowned African Novelist & Speaker

D.J. "Shangela" Pierce

Actor, Drag Performer & Co-Host of HBO’s “We’re Here”

Daveed Diggs

Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actor Known for "Hamilton"

David Oyelowo

Actor Known for "Selma," "The Butler" & "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"