Maya Angelou
Poet, author and lifetime chair, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of American Studies, Wake Forest University, North Carolina Lerone Bennett Jr.
Author, historian, lecturer and Ebony magazine executive editor emeritus Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Scholar, author and University Professor at Georgetown University Dr. John Hope Franklin
Historian and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University Click here to launch The EBONY Power 150 Organizations (Listed Alphabetically) | Dr. Henry Louis (Skip) Gates Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, author and researcher of African-American history Charles Ogletree
Founding executive director, Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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