Common

Award-Winning Artist, Actor, Producer, Musician & Writer

And Then We Rise: A Guide to Loving and Taking Care of Self

Killer Mike

Hip-Hop Artist & Activist Focused on Social Inequality, Police Brutality & Systemic Racism

Alex Newell

Grammy Award-Winning Actor & Singer Known for "Glee"

Neon Trees

Alternative Rock Band Known for their Single "Everybody Talks"

John Legend

EGOT Winning Musician, Producer & Philantropist

Hill Harper

Best-Selling Author, Tech Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist & Actor; Best Known For "CSI: NY" & "The Good Doctor"

Taylor Swift

Grammy Award Winning Pop Singer-Songwriter; Called "Most Successful Artist of the 21st Century"

Darius Rucker

Lead Singer and Rhythm Guitarist of the Rock Band Hootie & the Blowfish

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

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

Kylar Broadus

Attorney, Author & LGBTQ Rights Activist; Motivational Disability Speaker; Founder of the Trans People of Color Coalition

Butterscotch

Vocal Percussionist Who Defies Gender & Other Social Constructs

Leslie Odom Jr.

Broadway Actor & Grammy Award Winning Singer

Rhiannon Giddens

Grammy-Winning & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Folk Singer Reclaiming African-American Musical Traditions

Iron & Wine

Folk Singer-Songwriter

Questlove

Musician, Music Journalist, Producer & Drummer for The Roots

Forest Whitaker

Award-Winning Actor, Producer & Director; Best Known for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" & "The Last King of Scotland"

Ricky Martin

Puerto Rican Grammy Award-winning Singer-songwriter, Actor and Author

Ashley Judd

Actress, Activist & Humanitarian

Angela Davis

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Nkechi Taifa

Civil & Human Rights Attorney, Best-Selling Author, Scholar Activist

Taifa keynotes 2021 HBCU Pre-Law Summit

John Holiday

Award-Winning Operatic Countertenor, Singing Artist & Professor of Voice

Billie Eilish

Academy & Grammy Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Known for "when the party's over" & "bad guy"

Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell Wins Original Song - Motion Picture

Aisha Fukushima

Performance Lecturer, Justice Strategist, Facilitator, Vocalist & Founder of RAPtivism

Intersectionality matters: Aisha Fukushima at TEDxWhitmanCollege

Karamo

Television Host & Culture Expert on Netflix's "Queer Eye"

Billy Porter

Broadway Theater Performer, Actor & Singer

Yara Shahidi

Award-Winning Actress Known for "Black-ish," Youth Advocate & Voting Activist

Let Curiosity Lead | Yara Shahidi | TED

Angelica Ross

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

Sangu Delle

Entrepreneur, Author, Clean Water Activist, Soros Fellow & TEDGlobal Fellow

Hayley Kiyoko

Pop Singer-Songwriter & Actress

Michelle Williams

Gospel Artist & Former Member of Destiny's Child

Checking In: How Getting Real about Depression Saved My Life---and Can Save Yours