KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & NYT Bestselling Author of "American Whitelash"

Emmy Award-Winning Comedian, Podcast Host & Bestselling Author; Former Host of "The Daily Show"; Grammy Award Show Host

Professor of African American Studies, Author, Cultural Analyst

Author, Director & Actor Known for "Diff'rent Strokes"; Substance Abuse Recovery Advocate

Young Poet, Educator, Activist & TED Speaker Known For "High School Training Ground"

Award-Winning Journalist & Media Personality Known as "The Voice of Black America", Author of "White Fear," "The First" & "Speak Brother!"

Former Adviser & Speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr.; Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient

Author; Columnist; Documentary Film Maker; Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution & Expert on Race Relations

First Gentleman of Hip Hop, MTV Show Producer, Style Icon

First African-American Chess Grandmaster; Author, Puzzle Inventor & Motivational Speaker

Best-Selling Author, Award-winning Filmmaker, Recording Artist & Professor

Actor, Activist & Author; Known for "Iron Man 2" & "Hotel Rwanda"

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Writing About Culture, War, and Identity; Professor & Distinguished Senior Poet at New York University

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

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

Coach, Educator, Author & Entrepreneur; Founder & Chairman of the Coach Ken Carter Foundation; Inspiration for the Film "Coach Carter"

Academic Economist & Author; Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences & Professor of Economics at Brown University

Award-Winning Hip-Hop Artist, Actor, Producer & Social Justice Activist

2011 NCAA Wrestling Champion; Recipient of the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance & ESPN ESPY Awards; Author, "Unstoppable"

Peabody Award-Winning Radio Host, Spoken Word Artist, Playwright