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Drummer and Joint Frontman for The Roots, Academy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker

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Drummer and Joint Frontman for The Roots, Academy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker

Transgender Rights and Racial Justice Activist, Filmmaker & Writer

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Bestselling Memoirist, Documentary Filmmaker and Professor of Creative Writing and Film

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Documentary Filmmaker, Civil Rights Advocate and Expert on the Life of Emmett Till

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