Reverend Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC’s
PoliticsNation and the founder and president of the National Action Network (NAN), one of the leading civil rights organizations in the world. With over forty years of experience as a community leader, politician, minister, and advocate, Reverend Al Sharpton is one of America’s most-renowned civil rights leaders. Sharpton also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show
Keepin’ It Real, which broadcasts in forty markets, five days a week. He resides in New York.
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and the author of more than twenty books, including the
New York Times bestsellers
JAY-Z,
Tears We Cannot Stop, and
What Truth Sounds Like. He is a contributing opinion writer for the
New York Times and a contributing editor of
ESPN’s
The Undefeated. Dyson is winner of two NAACP Image awards and the recipient of the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former President Barack Obama has noted: “Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”
Leon Nixon is a professional actor, playwright, and filmmaker. A Los Angeles native, he has performed in short films, web series, and on stage in dramatic and comedic roles. He is also an improviser and part of the group that appears in the Guinness Book of World Records for Longest Continuous Improv Show.