Fania Davis

Co-founder & Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Charlene Carruthers

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Dr. Harry Edwards

Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, Civic Activist & Author

Roland Martin

Award-Winning Journalist & Media Personality, Author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith"

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

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

Dr. Cornel West

Philosopher, Professor, Political Activist & Author of "Race Matters"; 2024 People's Party Presidential Candidate

Bobby Seale

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

Ijeoma Oluo

Writer & Social Activist Known for Her Work on Issues of Race & Identity; Author of "So You Want to Talk About Race"

Tamika D. Mallory

Social Justice Leader & Movement Strategist

Yusef Salaam

One of the Central Park 5, Entrepreneur, Author, Trainer & Leader

Dorothy Roberts

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Rashad Robinson

President of Color Of Change, Civil Rights Leader & Nonprofit Executive

Fred D. Gray

Veteran Civil Rights Attorney; Represented Rosa Parks & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Clayborne Carson

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

Tavis Smiley

Broadcaster, Author, Publisher, Advocate, and Philanthropist

Julianne Malveaux

Economist, Author & Political Commentator; President Emerita of Bennett College for Women

Spike Lee

Academy Award-Winning Writer, Producer, Actor & Director; Best Known for "BlacKkKlansman" & "Malcolm X"

Dr. Bernice King

Minister, Attorney, Author & Daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Van Jones

CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN host, Emmy Award-winning Producer & NY Times Best-Selling Author

Nikki Giovanni

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Review: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Award-Winning Filmmaker, Literary Scholar, Journalist & Cultural Critic; Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University

Angela Davis

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

Opal Lee

Educator, Counselor & Activist; Known as the 'Grandmother of Juneteenth'

Amber Hikes

Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer, ACLU

Justin Hansford

Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Howard University School of Law

Kylar Broadus

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

Xernona Clayton

Civil Rights Leader, Broadcast Executive, Founder, President & CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation

Tommie Smith

World Record Breaking Gold Medal Olympian & Civil Rights Icon Famous for Black Power Salute at the Olympics

S. Lee Merritt

Attorney & Activist Dubbed "The People's Lawyer;" Founder of Merritt Law Firm

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Civil Rights Advocate & Leading Scholar in Critical Race Theory