Joy-Ann Reid

MSNBC Correspondent, Political Author & Host of "The ReidOut"

Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

Stacey Abrams

Political Leader, Voting Rights Activist & New York Times Bestselling Author

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Jimmy Wales

Founder of Wikipedia & Wikitribune

Kurt Andersen

Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

Wendy Davis

Lawyer & Democratic Politician; Founder of Deeds Not Words

Alan Dershowitz

Harvard Law School Professor; Leading Expert in Civil Rights

William Frist

Chair, The Nature Conservancy Global Board; Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Heart Transplant Surgeon; Founder of Founding Partner of Frist Cressey Ventures and Hope Through Healing Hands

Dr. William H. Frist - Acceptance Speech

Emily Oster

Professor of Economics at Brown University; Author on Personal Finance & Family Planning

Jacqueline Sanderlin

Advocate for Urban School Communities; Author of "The Why Not Challenge"; Founder & CEO of Why Not? Incubator

Jay Caspian Kang

Author of "The Loneliest Americans"; Emmy Award-Nominated Correspondent for HBO's 'Vice'; Co-Host of Podcast 'Time to Say Goodbye'

Marcia Chatelain

Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University & Author of "South SIde Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration"

Caleb Gayle

Award-Winning Journalist, Writer, & Author of "We Refuse To Forget"; Professor at Northeastern University

Joshua Angrist

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist; Co-Founder of MIT's Blueprint Labs & Avela; Co-Author of "Mostly Harmless Economics" & "Mastering 'Metrics"

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Ph.D.

Award-Winning Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University

Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy