KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Feminist, Social Activist, Professor & Writer

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

Director of Commonway Institute

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

Justice Correspondent, Attorney, Writer & Political Commentator

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter & Author of "They Can't Kill Us All"

Advocate & Author Known for "Angel of Greenwood"

MSNBC Correspondent, Political Author & Host of "The ReidOut"

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

MSNBC Political Analyst, Former Host of NPR's "The Michael Eric Dyson Show" & Best-Selling Author

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Best-Selling Author of "I Can't Date Jesus"

Co-founder & Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

Social Justice Activist & Attorney

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

Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Author, Feminist, Transgender Rights Activist, TV Host & Founder of #GirlsLikeUs

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

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

Journalist, Professor, Author & Multi-Disciplinary Scholar Whose Work Challenges Depictions of African Americans in Popular Culture