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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is one of the premier U.S. scholars of African-American literature and African Diasporic studies in general. Born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. travelled and studied internationally before becoming the head of Harvard's African-American studies department. He is an acclaimed author and critic who has unearthed an array of literary gems; he has also hosted PBS programs such as Wonders of the African World (1999), Finding Your Roots (2012) and Black in Latin America (2011).

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Bryan A. Stevenson is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder and executive director of the

Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, Stevenson has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system, especially children. He has helped achieve court decisions that prohibit sentencing children under 18 to death, or to life imprisonment without parole. Stevenson has assisted in cases that have saved dozens of prisoners from the death penalty, advocated for poor people, and developed community-based reform litigation aimed at improving the administration of criminal justice.

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Documentary that explores racism in America and the 13TH Amendment's loophole. The thesis of the documentary - slavery shall not be tolerated except as a punishment for crime.

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Malcolm X is an African-American Muslim Minister and human rights activist. Before his assassination he was a big advocator for human rights and hope for African-Americans and other marginalised groups around the world. After Malcolm X untimely death many legacy’s where left behind, including: the ‘Black Power’ and the ‘Black Arts’ movements. Even 20 years after his death many Hip-Hop artists such as, Public Enemy adopted him as an icon, and a resurgence of interest in him happened after the release of the film Malcolm X. Even today many memorials and tributes to Malcolm X are still standing, like his street; Malcolm X Boulevard

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Malcolm X is an African-American Muslim Minister and human rights activist. Before his assassination he was a big advocator for human rights and hope for African-Americans and other marginalised groups around the world. After Malcolm X untimely death many legacy’s where left behind, including: the ‘Black Power’ and the ‘Black Arts’ movements. Even 20 years after his death many Hip-Hop artists such as, Public Enemy adopted him as an icon, and a resurgence of interest in him happened after the release of the film Malcolm X. Even today many memorials and tributes to Malcolm X are still standing, like his street; Malcolm X Boulevard

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- Activist, writer, educator

- Author of book ‘Understanding Mass Incarceration’

- Based in Urbana, Illinois

- He has been charged with second-degree murder, passport fraud and possession of an explosive device

- He has served 6 years in High Desert State Prison for his crimes

- Known for his involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army, which was a leftist revolutionary group known for bank robberies, murders and other violence, he was a ‘fighter’ for them

- The SLA also kidnapped a 19-year-old girl who they threatened, confined to a small space and sexually assaulted and brainwashed her

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Very cool man: http://www.thetattooedprof.com/about/

Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Born of parents in the Black Panther Party, Cyril is a leader in the movement for digital rights and freedom, and a proud member of the Black Lives Matter Network.

Malkia A. Cyril is founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network. For more than 20 years, Malkia has built the capacity of racial and economic justice movements to win media rights, access and power in a digital age. A skilled facilitator, and passionate speaker and writer, Cyril’s articles and appearances have driven racial justice strategy on issues from the fight for an open and affordable Internet and new strategic communications approaches to the fight against mass surveillance and prison profiteers. Cyril is a Prime Movers fellow, recipient of the 2012 Donald H. McGannon Award, the 2015 Hugh Hefner 1st Amendment Award, and the 2016 EFF Pioneer Award. In addition to appearing in documentary films Outfoxed and MissRepresentation Cyril has appeared in 13th.

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An American convicted murderer, college lecturer, author (memoir Writing my Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison) and director’s fellow of the MIT Media Lab.

Teaches at University of Michigan as part of the Atonement Project.

Raised in a middle class family in Detroit during 1980s - height of the crack endemic. Ran away from abusive home at 14, convicted to join illegal drug trade my dealers.

Summer of 1991, Senghor shot and killed a man - was 19yrs old. Spent 19yrs in different prisons in Michigan - 7yrs were in solitary confinement. of these 7, 4.5 were consecutive. Released from prison in 2010.

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Angela davis is a an American political activist, who found a career as an educator and writer. She advocated for the oppressed during the late 1960’s and 1970’s. She was an activist for civil rights as well as bringing awareness to many other social issues in relation to racial prejudice. She was associated with the group, black panthers in the 1960’s but her main focus was towards the sub group from the communist party known as Che-Lumumba which was exclusive to black people.

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Van Jones "Van" Jones is an American news commentator, author, and non-practicing attorney.He is a regular CNN contributor and current presenter of the news feature documentary series and subsequent studio discussion series, The Messy Truth with Van Jones, also on CNN.

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Van Jones "Van" Jones is an American news commentator, author, and non-practicing attorney.He is a regular CNN contributor and current presenter of the news feature documentary series and subsequent studio discussion series, The Messy Truth with Van Jones, also on CNN.

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The use of presidents conveys an alternative voice, instead of speaking to the issues dominating the text, surrounding black lives matter the inclusion of presidents and presidential races shows an opposing viewpoint. Displays how politicians and figure heads of government have been and continue to use fear to win power struggles and continue to develop their position. If they cannot find fear they will create it.

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Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. In recent years, she has taught at a number of universities, including Stanford Law School, where she was an associate professor of law and directed the Civil Rights Clinics. In 2005, she won a Soros Justice Fellowship, which supported the writing of The New Jim Crow, and that same year she accepted a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University.