Tonya Lewis Lee

Author, Producer, Filmmaker & Entrepreneur; Women's Health Activist

Tonya Lewis Lee on the Black maternal mortality crisis

Juan Williams

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Fox News Political Analyst, Co-Host of "The Five" & Award-Winning Columnist

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders

Former Surgeon General of the United States

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

Presidential Professor at CUNY Graduate Center, BET News Correspondent, Human Rights Activist & Author

Carolyn Jessop

Polygamist Survivor & Author of "Escape"

Rachel Simmons

Internationally Recognized Educator & Best-Selling Author

Nontombi Naomi Tutu

Race, Gender & Human Rights Activist; Daughter of Desmond Tutu

Clifton L. Taulbert

Author, Business Consultant, & Speaker; Best Known for "Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored"

Cheryl Brown Henderson

Founding President of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence & Research

Alfre Woodard

Emmy Award-Winning Actress; Human Rights Activist

John Zogby

Trendspotter & Leading Pollster

Iris Krasnow

Best-Selling Author & Relationship Expert

Camp Girls: Fireside Lessons on Friendship, Courage, and Loyalty

Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Mariane Pearl

Widow of Journalist Daniel Pearl

Stacey Bess

Award-Winning Educator; Keynote Speaker; Advocate for Homeless Youth

Somaly Mam

Survivor & Anti-Sex Slavery Activist

Eugene Rivers

Pastor of the Azusa Christian Community

Amy DuBois Barnett

Chief Content Officer, theGrio.com & EVP Digital, Entertainment Studios

Lucille O'Neal

Author & Motivator

Azure Antoinette

CEO, Commissioned Poet & Author, Millennial Advocate

Claire and Mia Fontaine

Co-Authors of Come Back

Joy-Ann Reid

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

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

Kathy LeMay

Founder, President & CEO of Raising Change

Raj Patel

Award-Winning Writer, Food Politics Activist, Filmmaker & Academic

Bakari Sellers

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

Immaculée Ilibagiza

Author, "Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust"

Nell Irvin Painter

Award-winning scholar and writer

Brad Meltzer

Host of History Channel’s "Lost History" & "Brad Meltzer’s Decoded;" New York Times Best-Selling Author

Patricia Russell McCloud

Leading Business Motivator