African-American Speakers

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Aja Brown Former Mayor of Compton, Non-Profit Co-Founder, Social Justice Advocate

Mayor Aja Brown's New Vision for Compton is a revitalization strategy centered on 12 key principles that focus on family values quality of life economic development and infrastructural growth. Mayor B... Read More

Alicia Garza Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Alicia Garza believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve — to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An innovator, strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, Ali... Read More

Alveda King Civil Rights Activist and Christian Minister

Dr. Alveda C. King is the daughter of the late slain civil rights activist Rev. A. D. King and his wife Naomi Barber King. Alveda is the grateful mother of six children and she is a doting grandmother... Read More

Angela Davis Feminist, Social Activist & Writer

Through her activism and scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation's quest for social justice. Her work as an educator, both at the university level... Read More

Angela Roseboro Chief Diversity Officer at Riot Games

Angela Roseboro is Riot Games' first Chief Diversity Officer the new leader of their diversity, inclusion, & Riot culture initiative. She oversees all activities relating to diversity and inclusion (D... Read More

Angela Rye Principal Attorney and CEO of IMPACT Strategies and Political Commentator

Angela Rye is Principal and CEO of IMPACT Strategies. Featured as an influential politico, lawyer,and advocate by several publications and outlets from Marie Claire to Ebony and the Washington Post, R... Read More

Anne C. Bailey African-American Historian and Slave Trade Scholar

Anne C. Bailey is a writer, historian, and a tenured professor of History and Africana Studies at SUNY Binghamton (State University of New York). In her work, she combines the elements of travel, adve... Read More

Annette Gordon-Reed Historian and Law Professor at Harvard University

Annette Gordon-Reed, a renowned author and educator, holds positions as a Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Ha... Read More

Antwone Fisher Best-Selling Author & Screenwriter

Fisher became a ward of the state and was placed in foster care. He spent two years in a loving foster home, but when Social Services deemed the foster mother to have become too attached to him, he wa... Read More

Aprille Ericsson-Jackson Nasa Aerospace Engineer

Aprille was born the oldest of four daughters in Brooklyn, NY. She spent her childhood growing up in the Bedford Styvesant neighborhood, specifically, the Roosevelt projects on Dekalb Avenue. She was... Read More