Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Linda Gordon

Award Winning Author, Historian & Feminist

Annette Gordon-Reed

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

Damon Young

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

Diane McWhorter

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution

Elliott J. Gorn

Historian, Author & Professor of American Urban History at Loyola University Chicago

Jeffrey C. Stewart

National Book Award Longlisted Author

Ron Powers

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Author

Danielle McGuire

Award-Winning Author & Historian of Racial and Sexual Violence

Michael W. Twitty

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: a Savor the South cookbook" (Savor the South Cookbooks)

Michael Twitty Teaches Tracing Your Roots Through Food

Douglas Blackmon

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II"

Alice Walker

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

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Award-Winning Author of "Ghost Boys"

Dr. Heather Ann Thompson

Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize Winning Author of "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy," Historian at the University of Michigan

Herbert P. Bix

Historian, Teacher & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Saul Friedlander

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian & Essayist

Dan Fagin

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Known for "Toms River"

T Kira Madden

Author of "Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls"

Dean King

Award-Winning Best-Selling Author; Motivational & Inspirational Speaker; Cancer Survivor

Scott Ellsworth

Historian, Journalist, and Author of The Secret Game

Rinker Buck

Award-Winning Author; Known for "Flight of Passage"

Jason Reynolds

Critically Acclaimed Author & NAACP Image Award Winner

Robert K. Massie

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer & Historian

Luvvie Ajayi

New York Times Best-Selling Author, Podcast Host & Professional Troublemaker

Tim Wise

Anti-Racist Essayist, Author & Educator; Expert on White Privilege & Advocate for Belonging

Clayborne Carson

Scholar, Author, Professor, Civil Rights Historian & Director of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

James McBride

New York Times Best-Selling Author & Musician

Angela Davis

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Erika Lee

Historian; Author, "America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia" & "The Making of Asian America"