KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Actress, Writer, Director & Producer Known for HBO's "Insecure" & "Awkward Black Girl"

Academy Award Nominee, Director of "Selma", Founder of ARRAY

Filmmaker, Producer, Actor & Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter; Known for "Get Out" & "Us"

Singer-Songwriter, Rapper, Actress & LGBTQ Advocate

Film Director & Producer Known for "Ride Along," "Tom & Jerry" & "The Blackening"; Co-Founder, The Story Company

Academy Award-Winning Director, Film Producer, Author

Actor, Director & Producer Known for "Devil in a Blue Dress"

Actress, Immigration Reform Advocate, White House Ambassador

Grammy & Tony Award-Winning Actress; Known for "The Color Purple," "Wicked" & "Harriet"; Vice President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts

Cultural Critic, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Executive Producer of "Surviving R.Kelly"

Academy Award-Winning Actress, Producer & New York Times Best-Selling Author

Actress, Comedian & Producer Known for NBC's "Parks and Recreation," "Agatha All Along" & "My Old Ass"

Actress Known for "Scary Movie," "The Best Man" & "Ally McBeal"; First African American to Win a New York Film Critics Circle Award

Actor, Writer, Producer, Director & CEO, Tyler Perry Studios; Philanthropist & Founder, Perry Foundation

Actor Known for Marvel's "Black Panther" and "Us"

Director, Film Produce & Actor; Best Known for Directing "Straight Outta Compton," "The Italian Job" & "The Fate of The Furious"

Academy Awarding-Winning Writer, Director & Producer Known for "Moonlight"

Emmy-winning Writer, Producer, Advocate for Queer & BIPOC Voices

Director, Writer & Producer Known for "Precious," "Empire," "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" & "The Deliverance"; Founder, Lee Daniels Entertainment

British Screenwriter & Director Known for "Belle" and "A Way of Life"