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Benjamin Jealous
- Job: President and CEO of the NAACP
- Age: 40
- Location: Baltimore
- Twitter: @benjealous
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Cory Booker
- Job: Civil servant, politician
- Age: 44
- Location: Newark, N.J.
- Twitter: @CoryBooker
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Serena Williams
- Job: Professional tennis player
- Age: 31
- Location: Paris
- Twitter: @serenawilliams
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Melissa Harris-Perry
- Job: TV Host, pundit, professor, author, director of Anna Julia Cooper Project on race and gender in the South
- Age: 39
- Location: New Orleans
- Twitter: @MHarrisPerry
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Shawn 'Jay Z' Carter
- Job: Rapper, entrepreneur, sports agent
- Age: 43
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @S_C_
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Ryan Coogler
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Kerry Washington
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Tyler Perry
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Shonda Rhimes
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Kasim Reed
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Benjamin Crump
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William Jelani Cobb
- Job: Professor, historian, columnist
- Age: 44
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @jelani9
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Kanye West
- Job: Rapper, producer, designer, entrepreneur
- Age: 36
- Location: Chicago
- Twitter: @kanyewest
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W. Kamau Bell
- Job: Comedian, talk show host
- Age: 40
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @wkamaubell
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Anthony Foxx
- Job: Civil servant, politician
- Age: 42
- Location: Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @AnthonyFoxx
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Jamie Foxx
- Job: Actor, singer, activist
- Age: 45
- Location: Los Angeles
- Twitter: @iamjamiefoxx
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Joy-Ann Reid
- Job: Managing editor, on-air personality, political op-ed writer
- Age: 44
- Location: Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Twitter: @TheReidReport
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Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
- Job: Singer, actress, U.N. ambassador
- Age: 32
- Location: New York
- Twitter: @Beyonce
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Job: Author and journalist
- Age: 38
- Location: Harlem, N.Y.
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Pharrell Williams
- Job: Producer, composer, rapper, entrepreneur, fashion designer
- Age: 40
- Location: Virginia
- Twitter: @Pharrell
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LeBron James
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Jason Kidd
- Job: Coach, Philanthropist
- Age: 40
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @RealJasonKidd
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Timbaland
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Kendrick Lamar
25
Sean 'Diddy' Combs
- Job: Producer, rapper, actor, entrepreneur
- Age: 43
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @iamdiddy
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Rashad Robinson
- Job: Executive director, Color of Change
- Age: 34
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @rashadrobinson
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Charles Blow
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Amy DuBois Barnett
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Kortney Ryan Ziegler
- Job: Filmmaker, visual artist, writer, academic
- Age: 32
- Location: Oakland, Calif.
- Twitter: @fakerapper
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Michael B. Jordan
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Issa Rae
- Job: Writer and owner of Issa Rae Productions
- Age: 28
- Location: Los Angeles
- Twitter: @IssaRae
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Janelle Monáe
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Tristan Walker
- Job: Silicon Valley executive, philanthropist
- Age: 29
- Location: Palo Alto, Calif.
- Twitter: @tristanwalker
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Adam Serwer
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Nasir 'Nas' Jones
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Solange Knowles
- Job: Singer, actor, fashionista, artist
- Age: 27
- Location: Brooklyn, N.Y. and New Orleans
- Twitter: @solangeknowles
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Audie Cornish
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Patina Miller
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Marcus Samuelsson
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Ava DuVernay
- Job: Writer and director, founder of AFFRM, the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement
- Age: 41
- Location: Los Angeles
- Twitter: @AvaEtc
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Billy Porter
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Tamron Hall
43
Queen Latifah
- Job: Actress, entertainer, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Age: 43
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @IAMQUEENLATIFAH
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Kimberly Bryant
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Phillip Agnew
- Job: Executive director, Dream Defenders
- Age: 28
- Location: Miami Lakes, Fla.
- Twitter: @PhilUnchained
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Touré
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Nina Turner
- Job: Minority whip of the Ohio Senate
- Age: 45
- Location: Cleveland
- Twitter: @ninaturner
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Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Gene Demby
- Job: Lead blogger for NPR's Code Switch blog
- Age: 32
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @GeeDee215
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Octavia Spencer
51
Van Jones
- Job: Environmental and civil rights activist, attorney, TV co-host
- Age: 44
- Location: Los Angeles
- Twitter: @VanJones68
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52
George Whitfield Jr.
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John Legend
- Job: Singer, songwriter, philanthropist
- Age: 34
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @johnlegend
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Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Job: Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Age: 41
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @KhalilGMuhammad
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Yasiin Bey
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Steve Benjamin
- Job: Politician, lawyer
- Age: 43
- Location: Columbia, S.C.
- Twitter: @SteveBenjaminSC
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Isaac Kinde
- Job: M.D. and Ph.D. candidate at John Hopkins School of Medicine
- Age: 29
- Location: Baltimore
- Twitter: @IsaacKinde
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Jamelle Bouie
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Jamil Smith
- Job: Segment producer, writer
- Age: 38
- Location: Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Twitter: @JamilSmith
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David Johns
- Job: Executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
- Age: 31
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @MrDavidJohns
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Cedric Richmond
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Touré Roberts
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Beverly Bond
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Danielle Moodie-Mills
- Job: Community activist, lobbyist
- Age: 33
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @DeeTwoCents
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Jotaka Eaddy
- Job: Senior adviser to the president and CEO and senior director for voting rights for the NAACP
- Age: 34
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @JotakaEaddy
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Mara Brock Akil
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Garth Graham
- Job: Doctor, public health expert and president of the Aetna Foundation
- Age: 38
- Location: Hartford, Conn.
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Sunny Hostin
- Job: Lawyer, on-air personality, TV host
- Age: 44
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @SunnyHostin
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Mitzi Miller
- Job: Editor-in-chief Jet magazine
- Age: 37
- Location: Chicago
- Twitter: @mitzimoments
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Charles Hudson
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Jonathan McBride
- Job: Assistant to President Obama and director of presidential personnel
- Age: 43
- Location: Washington, D.C.
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Hakeem Jeffries
- Job: U.S. congressman
- Age: 43
- Location: Brooklyn, N.Y., and Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @RepJeffries
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Brittney Cooper
- Job: Professor, black feminist blogger
- Age: 32
- Location: New Brunswick, N.J.
- Twitter: @ProfessorCrunk
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Neal Sales-Griffin
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Howard-John Wesley
- Job: Pastor, social activist
- Age: 41
- Location: Alexandria, Va.
- Twitter: @PastorHJW
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Laura Weidman Powers
- Job: Co-founder and executive director of CODE2040
- Age: 30
- Location: San Francisco
- Twitter: @laurawp
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Candace Parker
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Angela Rye
- Job: Principal at IMPACT Strategies
- Age: 33
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @angela_rye
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Jesmyn Ward
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Condola Rashad
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Kiese Laymon
- Job: Author, contributing editor to Gawker
- Age: 38
- Location: Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- Twitter: @KieseLaymon
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Jaime Harrison
- Job: Chairman, South Carolina Democratic Party
- Age: 37
- Location: Orangeburg, S.C.
- Twitter: @Harrison4SC
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Monique L. Nelson
- Job: CEO of UniWorld Group
- Age: 38
- Location: Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Twitter: @MoniqueUWGCEO
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Randall Jackson
- Job: U.S. attorney
- Age: 34
- Location: New York City
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Ayana Mathis
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Valisia LeKae
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Ivory A. Toldson
- Job: Howard University associate professor, deputy director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Age: 38
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @toldson
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Matt Thompson
- Job: Manager of digital initiatives (and mischief) at NPR
- Age: 32
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @mthomps
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Raphael G. Warnock
- Job: Senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church
- Age: 43
- Location: Atlanta
- Twitter: @RaphaelGWarnock
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Mellody Hobson
- Job: President of Ariel Investments, financial expert for ABC News
- Age: 44
- Location: Chicago
- Twitter: @MellodyHobson
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Troy Carter
- Job: Founder and CEO of Atom Factory
- Age: 40
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Uzoamaka Maduka
- Job: Founder and editor-in-chief of the American Reader
- Age: 25
- Location: New York City
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Binta Niambi Brown
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Mark S. Luckie
- Job: Manager of journalism for Twitter
- Age: 30
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @marksluckie
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Aja Brown
- Job: Mayor of Compton, Calif.
- Age: 31
- Location: Compton, Calif.
- Twitter: @AjaLBrown
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Yohannes Abraham
- Job: Special assistant to the president and chief of staff for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs
- Age: 27
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Twitter: @YohannesAbraham
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Adepero Oduye
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Rachel A. Brooks
- Job: Digital producer, co-founder of Citizen Made
- Age: 26
- Location: Chicago and New York City
- Twitter: @RachelABrooks
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Bozoma Saint John
- Job: Director of cultural branding, music and entertainment for PepsiCo Inc.
- Age: 35
- Location: New York City
- Twitter: @SaintBoz
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Christine P. Fleming Hendon
- Job: Biomedical engineer, professor
- Age: 30
- Location: New York City
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