Devin Allen

“Devin Allen could be the Gordon Parks of his generation.”
—NBC BLK

Michael Bennett

“There is a tradition of athletes who understand that sports is a way to reach people and change the world. Michael Bennett's name deserves mention alongside the best of us.”
—Dr. John Carlos

Angela Y. Davis

"Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet."
—Alice Walker

Eve L. Ewing

"Ignore Eve Ewing at your own intellectual, political, and cultural peril."

–Chicago Magazine

Aja Monet

“Aja Monet’s poetry offers us textures of feeling and radical shifts of meaning that expand our capacity to envision and fight for new worlds.”
—Angela Y. Davis

Arundhati Roy

“Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time."
—Cornel West

Rebecca Solnit

"No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance."
—Maria Popova

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"Taylor has absconded from the ivory tower to break down the current Movement for Black Lives, arguing that it holds the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation."
—The Root