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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
**The Newspaperman
**Obama: In Pursuit Of A More Perfect Union
**The Soul of America
**True Justice
**Gloria: In Her Own Words
**John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls
Renata Adler
Journalist & Author
Genevieve Ahearne
Friend of Barack Obama
Clifford Alexander
Former U.S. Secretary of the Army
Elizabeth Alexander
Poet
Devin Allen
Photographer
Byllye Avery
Activist
Loretta Augustine-Herron
Community Organizer
David Axelrod
Political Advisor
Edward Ayers
Historian
Joan Baez
Musician & Activist
Harry Belafonte
Musician & Activist
Mary Frances Berry
Historian
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Poet & Prison Reform Advocate
Joe Biden
U.S. President
Joanne Bland
Activist
Christopher Bonner
Historian
Carol Moseley Braun
U.S Senator
David Brooks
Columnist, The New York Times
Ursula Burns
Businesswoman
Joseph Califano
Special Assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson
Xernona Clayton
Activist
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Author & Journalist
Abigail Cooper
Historian
Dorothy Cotton
Activist
Adger Cowans
Photographer
Michael Eric Dyson
Author & Professor
Marian Wright Edelman
Activist
Justene Hill Edwards
Historian
Richard Fernandez
Activist
Mary Lou Finley
Activist
Eric Foner
Historian
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Professor
Kerri Greenidge
Historian
Steven Hahn
Historian
Aileen Hernandez
Union Organizer & Activist
Tom Houck
Activist
Dolores Huerta
Labor Leader & Activist
Sherrilyn Ifill
Lawyer
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Author & Activist
Jesse Jackson
Activist & Politician
Kellie Carter Jackson
Historian
Caroline Janney
Historian
Valerie Jarrett
Lawyer, Businesswoman, Politician
Broderick Johnson
Chair, My Brother's Keeper
Clarence Jones
Civil Rights Attorney
Matthew Karp
Historian
Jerry Kellman
Community Organizer
Janice Wesley Kelsey
Civil Rights Activist
Keegan-Michael Key
Comedian
Karen Korematsu
Fred Korematsu's Daughter
Bernard Lafayette
Activist & Organizer
Norman Lear
Screenwriter and Producer
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Author & Activist
John Lewis
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
Alvin Love
Pastor
Ken Mack
Historian
Chandra Manning
Historian
Ian Manuel
Poet & Activist
David Maraniss
Author & Journalist
Sam Massell
Politician & Businessman
Kate Masur
Historian
Edna Greene Medford
Historian
Dale Minami
Civil Rights Attorney
Judd Miner
Civil Rights Lawyer
Khalil Muhammad
Historian & Professor
Diane Nash
Activist
Nichelle Nichols
Actor
Eleanor Holmes Norton
U.S. Politician
Barack Obama
U.S. President, 2009-2017
Violet Palmer
American Basketball Official
Anthony Peterson
Classmate of Barack Obama
Condoleezza Rice
Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Bobby Rush
Politician & Activist
Cleveland Sellers
Activist
Reverend Al Sharpton
Civil Rights Activist
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Writer & Activist
Shirley Sherrod
Activist
Barbara Smith
Activist
Gloria Steinem
Writer & Activist
Bryan Stevenson
Founder, Equal Justice Initiative
George Takei
Actor & Activist
Donald Tamaki
Civil Rights Attorney
C.T. Vivian
Minister & Activist
Alice Walker
Author
Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation
Laura Washington
Journalist
Cornel West
Philosopher & Activist
Andrew Young
U.S. Ambassador
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