Lancelot Schaubert

Novelist of "Bell Hammers," Editor, Performer, Artist Chaplain

Morgan Jerkins​

Contributing Editor at Catapult & Author of "This Will Be My Undoing"

Samantha Irby

Essayist and New York Times Best Selling Author

Quietly Hostile: Essays

Christine Leunens

International Bestselling Novelist & Author of "Caging Skies"

Oyinkan Braithwaite

Award-Winning Author, Writer & Feminist Known for "My Sister, the Serial Killer"

Damon Young

Co-Founder of Very Smart Brothas & Author of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker"

Kwame Alexander

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

C. Nathaniel Brown

Multi-bestselling author, publisher, filmmaker, and motivational and inspirational speaker.

Michael Elliot

African-American Screenwriter of Award-winning Urban Culture Film; CEO of Michael Elliott Media; Founder of Krush Magazine

Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal is an editor for The New York Times Book Review

Reginald Hudlin

Writer, Director and Producer; Known for "Django Unchained" &"House Party"; One Half of Hudlin Brothers Production Company

Arielle Estoria

Actor, Poet, & Author of "The Unfolding"

Arielle Estoria Speaker Reel

Jim Lee

Chief Creative Officer & Publisher of DC

The Power of Art with Jim Lee | FanDome Clip | DC

Enuma Okoro

Nigerian-American Author and Lecturer; Columnist, Financial Times; Global Citizen

Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent

Jasmine L. Harris

Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio & Author of “Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education”

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Writer, Scholar, Poet, Activist & Educator

Rachel Harding

Associate Professor of Indigenous Spiritual Traditions in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Denver

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Award Winning Mystery & Romance Author

Felwine Sarr

Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University

Afrotopia

Randi Pink

Advocate & Author Known for "Angel of Greenwood"

Zakiya Dalila Harris

New York Times Best-Selling Author of "The Other Black Girl"

Minna Salami

Writer, Lecturer, Feminist, Gender Equality Activist & Founder of Award-Winning Blog MsAfropolitan

Nicole Dennis-Benn

Award-Winning Author Known for "Here Comes the Sun"

Michelle Duster

Public Historian, Equity Advocate & Award-Winning Author Known for "Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells"

Nicole Lynn

President of Football Operations at Klutch Sports Group; Author, Agent & Attorney

Amanda Gorman

Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the U.S.

Spencer Bailey

Co-Founder of The Slowdown & Co-Host of the Time Sensitive Podcast

Tham ma da: The Adventurous Interiors of Paola Navone

dream hampton

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Anna Burns

Man Booker Prize-Winning Author

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

Fiction Author & Professor at the University of Notre Dame