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**The Thread
**A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
**The American President
**Becoming Warren Buffett
**Fragments of Paradise
**Jim: The James Foley Story
**John Lewis: His Last March
**King In the Wilderness
**Life Turns 50
**Lincoln's Dilemma
**Makers: Women Who Make America
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**The Soul of America
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Marina Abramović
Performance & Conceptual Artist
Renata Adler
Journalist & Author
Elizabeth Alexander
Poet
Jason Alexander
Actor
Kurt "Big Boy" Alexander
Radio Host
Devin Allen
Photographer
Marin Alsop
American Conductor
Joan Baez
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Leslie Parks-Bailey
Gordon Parks' Daughter
Harry Belafonte
Musician & Activist
Maurice Berger
Cultural Historian
Emily Bingham
Author
Judy Blume
Author
Peter Bogdanovich
Director & Writer
Philip Brookman
Curator
Tina Brown
Editor, Vanity Fair
Phong Bui
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Lonnie Bunch
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Carol Burnett
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Wyatt Cenac
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Charlamagne tha God
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Roz Chast
Cartoonist, The New Yorker
Sandra Cisneros
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Jelani Cobb
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Adger Cowans
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James Cromwell
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Abigail Disney
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Ava DuVernay
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Michael Eric Dyson
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Diane English
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Gloria Estefan
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Nicole Fleetwood
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LaToya Ruby Frazier
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Diane von Furstenberg
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Nelson George
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Joy Harjo
23rd Poet Laureate of the United States
Anjelica Huston
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Jim Jarmusch
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Keegan-Michael Key
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Norman Lear
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Spike Lee
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Maya Lin
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Norman Mailer
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Rita Moreno
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Khalil Muhammad
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Nichelle Nichols
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Michal Raz-Russo
Curator
Robert Redford
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Jason Reynolds
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Faith Ringgold
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Paul Roth
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Richard Roundtree
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Julian Schnabel
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Pete Seeger
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Jamel Shabazz
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Martin Sheen
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Mario Sprouse
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George Takei
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Amy Taubin
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Marlo Thomas
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John Waters
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Sean Wilentz
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Hiro Yamagata
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Genevieve Young
Gordon Parks' Wife
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