is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist who writes regularly about the intersection between health, wealth, and happiness. 

is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy at the City University of New York and a research fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. 

is a senior writer at TheRoot.com covering the intersection of race, politics and culture. His book, BlackAF History, will be released in the spring of 2021. 

is a Nigerian-American human rights activist, writer, strategist, and community organizer. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.

an American artist and activist, and a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.

writes about the criminal justice system at The Marshall Project, and previously wrote the Washington Post’s “The Fact Checker” blog. She is based in Brooklyn, New York. 

is an educator, writer, and historian, who has been a researcher of African and African American history for more than 20 years. He is founder and CEO of Black Scroll

is the Guardian’s Environment editor.

 is an associate professor of Political Science & African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

is a professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, where she specializes in African American Studies and minority politics.

continues her activism. After Standing Rock, she traveled to Greece to help Syrian refugees and then to Tanzania, where she worked with a local physician to set up an intensive

is a fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, where his work focuses on the intersection of race, public policy, elections, media and popular culture.

is a professor of government and director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. 

, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, resides in Qualla, North Carolina. Her debut novel, Even As We Breathe, is scheduled to release September of 2020

is a photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published. His other books are Recycled Realities and Views from the Reservation. jwillis.net

has served as Chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe since 2014. sioux.org/government.html

is the largest Black-owned bank in the U.S.

is an associate professor of History at the University of Arizona.

is a contributing editor at High Country News. Email him at [email protected].

is a leading journalist on weather and climate change. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Grist, and The Correspondent, where he currently covers our interconnected relationship with the climate. He

is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet.

is a professor of global environmental politics at the University of California, Berkeley.

is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental science, policy, and management at the University of California, Berkeley.

is the mayor of Hyattsville, Maryland, where she is the youngest and first African American mayor in the city’s 134-year history. As national co-chair of Our Black Party, Candace will