Amiri Baraka

Writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism, Amiri Baraka is best known as the Father of the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka is committed to social justice like no other American writer. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Amory Lovins

Author and co-author of 29 books and renowned experimental physicist, Amory Lovins' work is consistently focused on harnessing market forces to promote resource efficiency as a solution to a variety of economic, social, and environmental problems. A highly sought-after speaker, Mr. Lovins has addressed many leading U.S. and overseas business, policy, energy, automotive, environment, and development groups.

Andre Norman As the leader of a Massachusetts prison's largest gang, Andre Norman eventually realized that his leadership talents could be used in a more positive way. His story is a fifteen year odyssey that takes him from gang leader to lecturer at Harvard University, realizing that many of the lessons he learned about leadership in prison applied perfectly to business in the outside world. Andre is also passionate about his work with troubled and at-risk youth.

Ben Vereen

Accomplished stage actor Ben Vereen is one the most revered and respected actors and showman alive. He has earned the prestigious Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for "Best Actor in a Musical". In 2002, he received the Black Theatre Award. Performing worldwide, Vereen's acting credits continue to give us memorable roles. The lecture circuit has become an integral part of Vereen's career; as he has become one of the Nations' most requested speakers among audiences of all ages.

Benjamin Barber

Bertice Berry

Bertice Berry is an award-winning entertainer, best selling author, lecturer and comedienne. She has won the coveted national Comedian of the Year Award, and has also named Campus Lecturer of the Year and Campus Entertainer of the Year. She had created a niche as both a gifted speaker with a comic edge and a comic with a serious message. Her busy schedule included over 200 appearances a year.

Bill Cosby

Bill Nye

Scientist, inventor, comedian and author, Bill Nye is a man with a mission. He's out to turn kids of all ages on to the "way cool" wonders of science. With his Emmy Award-winning weekly television series, Bill Nye the Science Guy, he's letting kids know that science is not only cool, it's powerful. After all, "Science rules!"

Bill Thomas

Bobby Seale

Revolutionary civil rights activist Bobby Seale co-founded the Black Panther Party For Self Defense in 1966. During the presentation Bobby and his wife Leslie define the pragmatic philosophical range of the sixties protest movement, which grew out of student activism, historical class analysis, scientific research, and programmatic community organizing. Today Seale is author of Barbequing with Bobby and was also a spokesman for Ben & Jerry's ice cream.