Introduction / Rebecca Carroll
I. Dr. Bill E. Lawson, philosophy scholar
II. Elizabeth Gardner Hines, writer/great-grandniece of A. G. Gaston
III. Ronald Walters, director of the African American Leadership Institute
IV. Lucenia Williams-Dunn, Mayor of Tuskegree, Alabama
V. Cleophus Thomas, Jr., Chairman and CEO of A. G. Gaston Corporation
VI. Karen Hunter, journalist/radio talk show personality
VII. Avon Kirkland, filmmaker
VIII. Dr. Julianne Malveaux, author/economist
IX. Bakari Kitwana, author
X. Debra Dickerson, writer
XI. Gregory S. Bell, journalist/author
XII. Cora Daniels, journalist/author
XIII. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, political analyst
XIV. Ruby sales, founder and executive director of SpiritHouse
XV. James Clingman, author/speaker
XVI. Jock Smith, attorney, Cochran, Cherry, Givens, & Smith, PC, Tuskegee
XVII. Kathy Y. Wilson, author/journalist
XVIII. John McWhorter, author
XIX. Sharon Madison Polk, businesswoman/entrepreneur
XX. John Bryant, founder, chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE.