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Michelle Alexander’s acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness released a special 10th anniversary edition in January 2020. Her celebrated book peels back the curtain on systemic racism in the American prison system, which the New York Review of Books described as “striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing.” With equal force and candor on stage, she takes a hard look at racial injustice in the modern legal system to reveal how mass incarceration has come to replace segregation.

In her acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle peels back the curtain on systemic racism in the American prison system, which the New York Review of Books described as “striking in the intelligence of her ideas, her powers of summary, and the force of her writing.” With equal force and candor on stage, she breaks the silence about racial injustice in the modern legal system to reveal how mass incarceration has come to replace segregation.

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Renowned activist, civil rights leader, community organizer and 2018 Maryland gubernatorial candidate Benjamin Jealous outlines what it will take to secure true equality for all Americans and to empower the next generation to lead toward a better future.

The former president and CEO of the NAACP, Benjamin served as the youngest president in its history. During Jealous’ tenure, the NAACP became the largest door-to-door voter registration operation nationwide. Recently, after a half decade as a partner at Kapor Capital, Jealous has returned to organizing as the newly elected president of People for the American Way (PFAW.org) – a 40 year old multi-racial coalition focused on advancing justice, equality, democracy and opportunity in the US.

During his dynamic and rousing speeches, Benjamin exposes the ways in which our country’s history of racial inequality continues, offering a powerful and empowering narrative that encourages individuals to contribute to making lasting change. Drawing from real-life stories from his efforts and the struggles of others, he rallies audiences to continue working for progress.

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The Secret to Unleashing Inner Greatness
A Rhodes scholar and the youngest person ever to lead the NAACP, Ben Jealous is known for being one of the most effective civil rights leaders of our day. However, it was not always clear that he would follow this path. In this speech, Jealous tells the inside history of more than 50 years of great civil rights battles, both known and unknown. He offers insight both into what our nation's greatest change agents have in common, and shows how we can all dramatically increase our capacity to make the world a better place.
Brothers, Unlimited
From the street-level movement to end racial profiling, to the White House's \"My Brother’s Keeper\" initiative, there is a growing movement to ensure that young Black men and all young men of color have access to the American Dream. Drawing from stories of men he knows and admires, Ben Jealous reflects on the importance of treating young men of color as assets to our communities rather than liabilities, and lays out what it will take for our country to finally realize the dream of \"One Nation\" written into the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Forgotten Origins and Consequences of Race in America
Do you remember the details of how President McKinley was killed? Did you know that Georgetown University's first president was black? Most Americans don't. And yet our forgotten history of race continues to haunt us in ways big and small, and to shape the making of modern America. In this speech, Ben Jealous tells the story behind lessons learned and unlearned, and what we all need to internalize if we aim to create a country where children are judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

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Through the transformative power of storytelling, Soledad O’Brien brings a fresh perspective on diverse and contemporary issues to foster change in your own community or organization.

As the host of the Sunday morning syndicated political show, Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien, Soledad has established herself as one of the most recognized names in broadcasting by telling the stories behind the most important issues, people and events of the day. A champion of diversity, she gives voice to the underserved and disenfranchised through her Emmy-winning reporting and acclaimed documentary series, Black in America and Latino in America. While also the contributing editor, reporting in-depth news magazine pieces for PBS NewsHour and correspondent for HBO Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. A prominent philanthropist, Soledad, is the founder of PowHERful, a foundation that mentors and funds college tuition and expenses for young women.

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Virtual Speech: Communicating in Times of Change
Award-winning journalist, documentarian, anchor and producer of the weekly political program Matter of Fact, and founder and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions, Soledad has reported from the scene of many disasters over the course of her storied career. From the Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Haiti, and Hurricane Katrina to the mass shooting of at Virginia Tech University, she has learned how proactive and effective communication can assist in reassuring those impacted by a crisis. She shows leaders how to avoid common communication pitfalls and how to lead their teams confidently in the face of adversity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, O’Brien has shared this inspiring virtual message with teams at tech companies ranging from Salesforce to Google and has received rave reviews.
Communicating in Times of Crisis
Award-winning journalist and host of the show Matter of Fact, Soledad O’Brien, shares what it was like filming her new documentary in Seattle just as the leading edge of the coronavirus began its devastating run through the community. She talks about arriving in Washington State with the intent of focusing on Seattle’s biggest public health crisis, homelessness and society’s most vulnerable. Her team had to pivot quickly once they were faced with a brand-new crisis: Covid-19 and the vulnerability of everyone in society. O’Brien discusses how the pandemic has impacted her world as well as her thoughts on how our communities will adapt.
Hungry to Learn: How Students Are Struggling on Campus
College students so strapped to pay tuition that they don’t have enough money to eat—it’s an American crisis. In this presentation, Soledad O’Brien draws from the documentary film she co-created with Geeta Gandbhir and examines a startling statistic affecting every campus in the country: forty-five percent of college students are regularly going hungry. Soledad explores the suffering and distraction of hunger, of eating at food pantries and the humiliation students experience in telling teachers and school officials that they need help. O’Brien expertly blends clips from the documentary with moderated Q&A with students from the campus for the purpose of starting a larger conversation.
Diversity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and in Our Lives
O’Brien delves into diversity in America, offering stories from her personal life and career experiences as she touches on a range of topics such as diversity in media, education, healthcare and the workforce.
An Evening with Soledad O’Brien: Her Life Stories
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Opal Tometi is a globally recognized human rights advocate, strategist and writer of Nigerian-American descent. She has been active in social movements for over 15 years, and is widely known for her role as a co-founder of Black Lives Matter and for her years of service as the Executive Director of the United States first national immigrant rights organization for people of African descent - the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).

A millennial trailblazer and immigration policy expert, Opal is widely respected for her creativity and bold leadership. At age 28 she became the Executive Director of BAJI. There she had an 8-year track record of leading the BAJI team in successful campaigns that advanced migrant rights and racial justice. She is currently being featured in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum for African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), and in 2018 was a recipient of the Vh1 Everyday Trailblazer honor and was Frederick Douglass 200 Awardee for her ground breaking contributions to contemporary social movements.

Her contributions as a leading public figure are grounded in service, and include being a member of the international coordinating council for Africans Rising for Peace and Dignity, serving on the board of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity and Steering Committee of the Pan African Network in Defense of Migrant Rights.

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Artist, activist, educator, public speaker, and Los Angeles-native Patrisse Cullors is the Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of the Los Angeles-based grassroots organization Dignity and Power Now. Cullors’ work for Black Lives Matter recently received recognition in TIME Magazine’s 2020 100 Women of the Year project.

For the last 20 years, Cullors has been on the frontlines of criminal justice reform and led Reform LA Jails’ “Yes on R” campaign, a ballot initiative that passed by a 71% landslide victory in March 2020.

Patrisse co-founded the global Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 after sparking the viral Twitter hashtag. The movement has since expanded into an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world campaigning against anti-black racism. In January 2016, Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, which became an instant New York Times Bestseller.

From 2016 to 2018 Patrisse worked as a Senior Fellow at MomsRising where she worked on ground breaking Federal legislation that will change the outcomes of maternal mortality for women, especially Black women. She also executive produced two podcasts with Rewire and developed a booklet labeled “c-section chronicles”.

As an artist Patrisse has directed and produced world renowned theater, performance pieces and docu-series. Her work has been on networks like BET and Blackpills as well as theaters and galleries across the world. Most recently she conducted her first solo show titled: Respite, Reprieve and Healing: An Evening of Cleansing.

Patrisse is the recipient of the Stanton Fellowship from the Durfee Foundation. Patrisse's work has been shown at Art Basel Miami, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the California African American Museum, the San Diego Art Institute, Kalamazoo College, Pieter Performance Space, Highways Performance Space, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute and more.

Patrisse has been honored with various awards including: The 2020 Durfee Stanton Fellowship, The 2019 Champion for Peace and Justice from the Trayvon Martin Foundation, The Next Generation Award (2018) from ACLU National, The Sydney Peace Prize Award (2017), Black Woman of the Year Award (2015) from The National Congress of Black Women, Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century Award (2015) from the Los Angeles Times, Community Change Agent Award (2016) from BLACK GIRLS ROCK!, Inc., Women of the Year Award for the Justice Seekers Award (2016) from Glamour, and ESSENCE’ first-ever Woke Award.

Patrisse is currently the Faculty Director at Arizona’s Prescott College of a new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program that she has developed and holds her MFA from USC Roski School of Art and Design.

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Iconic activist Angela Davis has made it her mission to share her life story and challenge her audiences to join the struggle for racial, economic, and gender justice.

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Angela has been deeply involved in some of the major social movements over the last 50 years. She was born and raised in Birmingham, Ala., by parents who were active community organizers. As a teenager, she marched and picketed against racial segregation. Angela went on earn a doctorate in philosophy. She became known as a radical feminist and activist, a member of the Communist Party USA, and an associate of the Black Panther Party.

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Angela’s outspoken ways made her a focal point of criticism. Her Communist ties led then-California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969 to try to bar her from teaching at any California university. The attempt failed; she is now professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department.

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Angela became the center of a firestorm in the 70s, when she was prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, but was acquitted. The charges stemmed from Angela’s purchase of weapons for her personal bodyguards; these guards in turn used the guns for a hostage takeover of a California courtroom. Four people were killed in the ensuing gunfight. Angela became a fugitive and was listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.

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During the 1980s, she was twice a candidate for Vice President with the Community Party. She left the party in 1991.

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Angela has campaigned for social justice – particularly with what she calls the “prison industrial complex” that has grown since the 80s with the emergence of the private-prison industry. She is one of the founders of Critical Resistance, a national grassroots organization fighting for changes in the prison system. Her books include Are Prisons Obsolete and Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire.

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Angela writes and frequently speaks as part of her mission to build engaged communities that seek to reform the U.S. prison system. She urges her audience to “hone their critical skills, develop them and implement them\" while fighting for racial, economic and gender justice.

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Rachel Lindsay is an attorney, media host, and podcaster, best known for her ground-breaking turn as the first and only African American lead on ABC's The Bachelorette.

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Michael Barbaro hosts The Daily, a five-day-a-week audio podcast from The New York Times. In its first year, the show built an audience of over one million listeners a day.

Launching at the dawn of the Trump Presidency, it was Apple Podcast’s most-downloaded new show of 2017. Barbaro’s The Daily also won a DuPont-Columbia University Award for audio excellence and been named a top podcast of the year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Atlantic, Esquire, Adweek, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine. Along with podcast success, his Twitter account @mikiebarb also boasts a substantial following.

On stage, Barbaro frames his discussions in much the same way he describes his show: The moment demands an explanation—The Daily is on a mission to find it. Michael discusses the creation of The Daily and his journey, as well as his view on the state of journalism today, including the impact of cable versus the rising popularity of podcast audio. He taps into his expertise as a national correspondent to provide audiences with an informed, nonpartisan perspective on the day’s headlines.

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Symone challenges audiences on the conventional wisdom that strong communities depend on total unanimity and accord to thrive. Instead, she argues that diversity and debate can create healthy, sustainable social movements. Symone brings attention to the issue of juvenile justice reform while providing a millennial’s perspective to debates about government policy.

She emerged onto the Democratic political scene at 25, when she became the national press secretary for the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. That accomplishment made her the youngest presidential press secretary on record. Symone has joined the 2020 presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden as a senior advisor.

Symone started in progressive politics early in life; at age 16 she impressed former President Bill Clinton with her speech introducing him at a luncheon. The former president later mentioned Sanders in his book Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World.

Symone is the past chair of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice’s Emerging Leaders Committee and former member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice. She is the principal of the 360 Group, LLC., which consults for organizations, businesses, individuals, campaigns, and candidates.

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MLK Jr: The Realist
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Damon Davis brings a powerful blend of social commentary and art therapy to audiences to help heal divisions, empower the powerless, and illuminate issues of race and class in society.

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