KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Poet, Educator & Best-Selling Author

Culinary Historian & Author of "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook"

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker; Bestselling Author of Historical & Transcultural Novels and Memoirs

Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine & "RaceAhead" Columnist

Writer, Filmmaker & Black Studies Scholar; Founder of BYP100

Award-Winning Author of "Halsey Street" & "What’s Mine and Yours"

Political Activist & Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party

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

Poet, Educator, Publisher, Emmy Award Winning Producer & New York Times Bestselling Author Known for "The Crossover"

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

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Known for "In The Heights;" Author Known for "My Broken Language"

Best-Selling Author Known for "Call Me by Your Name"; Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature

Renowned Scholar, Poet, Playwright & Activist

Anti-Racist Educator, Author of "This Book is Anti-Racist"

Retired Police Officer & Inspiration for "BlacKkKlansman"

Scholar & Social Justice Advocate

Founder & Executive Director of the Freedom Writers Foundation; Education Reform Advocate

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

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