Abir Alzinaty

Abeer Alzinaty is a hip-hop artist, writer and activist. Born to a Palestinian family inside the Israeli borders, Abeer learned to express herself through art. As Sabreena Da Witch she has performed... more

Adam Mansbach

Adam Mansbach's most recent book is the critically-acclaimed bestseller Angry Black White Boy, or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, a satire about race, whiteness and hip hop that has already... more

Akiba Solomon

Akiba Solomon writes Colorlines' Gender Matters blog and is an NABJ-Award winning writer, freelance journalist, editor and essayist from West Philadelphia. A graduate of Howard University, the... more

Alexis McGill Johnson

Alexis McGill Johnson is a political strategist, writer, and organizer. She was the Executive Director of Citizen Change, a national, nonpartisan, and nonprofit organization founded by Sean “P... more

Alida Garcia

Alida Garcia is a political & public affairs strategist for electoral & issue advocacy campaigns with an expertise in Latino civic engagement, and Latino... more

Amanda Klonsky

Amanda Klonsky is the founder and director of Free Write Jails Art Literacy Program. The initiative reaches over 400 incarcerated youth in juvenile detention in Cook County Illinois Juvenile... more

Angela Woodson

Angela Woodson is the Director of Outreach for the Ohio Governor’s Office of Faith-based Initiatives. She’s been a professional in State and County government for nearly two decades. Over... more

Arthur Silky Slim Reed

Arthur “Silky Slim” Reed is a youth counselor, radio talk show host and the president of Stop The Killing, Inc. A former gang leader who was incarcerated for the first time at 14, Reed... more

Ashley Yates

Ashley Yates is an activist, poet and artist who hails from Florissant, Missouri. She is a member and co-founder of Millennial Activists United, a group of primarily young Black women activists... more

Bakari Kitwana

Bakari Kitwana (Moderator) is a journalist, activist and political analyst whose commentary has been seen on CNN, Fox News (The O’Reilly Factor), BET and heard on NPR. The co-founder of the... more

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