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Speakers & Artists
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 | | Opal Palmer Adisa
Celebrated Novelist, Poet and Educator
American Book Award Winner for her poetry collection Tamarind and Mango Women
Diversity educator focusing on racism, sexism, homophobia and internalized oppression
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 | | Antwi Akom
Award Winning Educator, Scholar and Writer
A Leading Expert on the Green Economy, Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), and Climate Change
Greening the Globe: Environmental Health, Educational Equity, and Social Justice
Revolutionary Urbanism: Race, Climate Justice, and the Politics of Pollution in Cities and Schools
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 | | damali ayo
Author, Performing and Visual Artist
Post-Race America? Racism in the Age of Obama
Author of the best selling book How to Rent a Negro
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 | | Murali Balaji
Award Winning Journalist and Scholar
Books include The Professor and The Pupil: The Politics of W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson
Editor of Desi Rap which examines the impact of hip hop on South Asian Americans
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 | | Amiri Baraka
A Vanguard in the Black Arts Movement
One of the nations most influential and prolific African American artists
Author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, music history and criticism.
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 | | Mohammed Bilal
Diversity Consultant, Actor, Musician & Poet
Facilitator of over 300 diversity presentations/workshops worldwide
Former castmember of MTV's The Real World San Francisco
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 | | Mohammed Bilal & Josh "BOAC" Goldstein Orange Flash
Hip Hop Duo Looks at Race, Racism, and the Way We Get Along
Challenging notions of Black and White, Jew and Muslim, urban and suburban to build cross-cultural communication and understanding
Ten Tools for Open Interaction
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 | | Brave New Voices on Tour
...because the next generation can speak for itself.
Includes some of the brightest young performance poets nationwide
These voices of 21st Century America transcend race, class, gender, orientation, and red state/blue state politics to show us what the next generation of leaders looks and sounds like
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 | | Elaine Brown
Veteran Civil Rights Leader & Author
New Age Racism in America: The Elimination of Race, Gender and Class Disparities
First and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party in the 1970s
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 | | Linda Burnham
Activist & Writer for Women's Rights & Racial Justice
Founder and Former Executive Director of the Women of Color Resource Center
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 | | Shakti Butler
Filmmaker and Facilitator of Diversity Dialogues
Producer & Director of Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible and "The Way Home"
Building sustainable communities through equity and social justice
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 | | Angela Davis
Author, Educator and Activist
Author of numerous books on the prison industrial complex including Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Leader in the movement for economic, racial, and gender equality
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 | | Dr. Joy DeGruy
Renowned Educator and Author of "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome"
Author of the groundbreaking book, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Available for lectures and workshops
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 | | Melanie DeMore
Acclaimed African American Folk Singer
- Available for performances and vocal workshops
- Her "Sound Awareness program explores the political and cultural effects of the media on music and young people
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 | | Jacqueline Elena Featherston
Acclaimed Writer, Educator and Visionary
Works include the book Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity and the film "Alice Walker: Visions of the Spirit"
Weaving Change: Equity and Social Justice Transforming Culture across Differences
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 | | Dawn-Elissa Fischer
The DEF Professor
Professor of Africana Studies and a Leading Hip Hop Scholar
Co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention
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 | | Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Leading Labor, Racial Justice and International Solidarity Leader
Co-author of Solidarity Divided, The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice
Founder of the Center for Labor Renewal and past president of TransAfrica Forum
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 | | David Hilliard
Former Black Panther Party Chief of Staff
Author of This Side of Glory, a compelling eyewitness account of the Black Panthers and the biography Huey, Spirit of the Panther
A vibrant voice on civil rights history who speaks eloquently to racial divisions today
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 | | Ericka Huggins
Human Rights Activist, Poet and Scholar
Former Black Panther leader and political prisoner
Lectures focus on womens' leadership, physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth incarceration, education, and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change
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Politically Sexy, Rambunctiously Entertaining Spoken Word Hip Hop Theater
Fuses spoken word, hip-hop, funk, and experimental theater
Comprised of African American and Asian American artists, they demonstrate the complex history that binds our history
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 | | Andrew Jolivette
Accomplished Educator, Writer and Social/Cultural Critic
Topics include Rethinking Identity: Mixed Race, HIV/AIDS and People of Color, Indigenous Rights and Cultural Survival, LGBT/Queer Community of Color Identity
Author of Cultural Representation in Native America and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity
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 | | Van Jones
Globally Recognized Pioneer in The Green Collar Economy
Author of the bestseller The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Solve Our Two Biggest Problems
Former Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality
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 | | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
A Leading Voice in Performance and Arts Education
National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, dancer/choreographer and featured artist on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO
Recipient of the U.S. Artists Rockefeller Fellowship which annually recognizes 50 of the country's "greatest living artists"
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 | | Victor Lewis
Leader in the Field of Anti-Oppression Diversity Work and Alliance Building
Known for his inspiring role in the award-winning race relations documentary, "The Color of Fear"
Co-author of the curriculum, Lessons from "The Color of Fear"
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 | | Victor Lewis and Hugh Vasquez
Two of the Men from "The Color of Fear," the Breakthrough Film about Race Relations
Co-authors of the curriculum, Lessons from "The Color of Fear"
Offer engaging workshops and presentations based on the film and moving beyond "The Color of Fear"
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 | | Clarence Lusane
Author, Scholar and Journalist on Race, Human Rights and Electoral Politics
- Expert on comparative race relations, international human rights, social movements and electoral politics
- Author of several books, including a major work, The Black History of the White House, forthcoming this fall
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 | | Ise Lyfe
Premier Spoken Word Artists, Emcee, and Educator
Available for solo shows that include Is Everybody Stupid.(?) and Who's Krazy? as well as lectures, performances and workshops
One of the top 101 Black Men in California Making a Difference
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 | | Reanae McNeal
Awarding Winning Performer, Playwright, Oral Herstorian
Active in the anti-violence movement focusing on rape/sexual assualt
Solo shows include Don't Speak My Mother's Name In Vain and Blues Women Don't Wear No Shoes
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 | | Pamela Means
Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter and Acoustic Artist
- A favorite at Black History Month, Womens Month, Gay Pride, and Take Back the Night events.
- Seven CD releases including her latest, Precedent
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 | | Rev. Irene Monroe
Lesbian Theologian, Scholar, Writer and Activist
Popular columnist for New England Blade, The Advocate Magazine, Black Commentator and Huffington Post
Sought-after speaker on race, women's spirituality and gender issues.
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 | | Leroy Moore Jr.
African American Disabled Writer, Poet, Activist
Author of a spoken word CD and chapbook Black Disabled Man with a Big Mouth & a High IQ
Lectures on the intersection of race and disability, among other topics
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 | | Barbara Ransby
Award-Winning Writer and Historian
Author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Co-founder of the Black Radical Congress, African American Women in Defense of Ourselves and the Progressive Media Project
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 | | Boots Riley
Hip Hop Artist and Raptivist for Social Justice
Co-founder of the hip hop group The Coup whose award-winning albums include Party Music and Pick a Bigger Weapon
Spoken word poet and community organizer
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 | | Loretta J. Ross
Women's Rights & Human Rights Leader
National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
Co-author of Undivided Right: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
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 | | Sonia Sanchez
Renowned Writer, Poet, and Playwright
Author of over a dozen books including Homecoming, We a BaddDDD People, I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
A leading force in African American literary and political culture for over three decades
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 | | Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Lesbian Feminist Filmmaker and Writer
Producer, writer, and director of the feature length documentary NO! (The Rape Documentary)
Her published essays are featured in several anthologies and journals in the U.S. and abroad
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 | | Carmen Mitzi Sinnott
Award-Winning Actress and Arts Educator
Her solo show based on her own parents, SNAPSHOT: a true story of love interrupted by invasion, explores the forces of history, race, and war
Best Actress nominee at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival & recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Councils NYSCA Individual Artist Award
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 | | A Slice of Rice, Frijoles & Greens
Multicultural Program of Spoken Word, Music, Movement and Song
African American(Chic Street Man), Latina(Paulina Sahagun) and Asian American(Dan Kwong) artists come together to take audiences beyond cultural borders in a show that entertains and enlightens
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 | | Walter Turner
Leading Authority on Africa - its History, Development and Current Events
Co-author of No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000
Host and producer of the acclaimed weekly Pacifica Radio program, "Africa Today"
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 | | Upsurge!
High Octane Jazz Poetry Duo
Jazz Poets Raymond Nat Turner & Zigi Lowenberg move minds and incite action while always holding true to the rhythm
CD releases include Chromatology and All Hands on Deck
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 | | Rev. C.T. Vivian
A Living Legend of the Civil Rights Movement
A Baptist Minister who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for many years
Speaks on building a Civil Rights Movement for the New Millennium
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 | | Alice Walker
The Essential Writer of Our Times
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple as well as numerous other novels, books of poetry, short stories and essay collections
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 | | Follow Me Home
An Exploration of Race & Identity from Director-Writer Peter Bratt
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