Tavis Smiley was selected by Time magazine as one of America's 50 most promising young leaders. Newsweek profiled him as one of the "20 people changing how Americans get their news" and dubbed him one of the nation's "captains of the airwaves". He was the first American to simultaneously host signature talk shows on both PBS and NPR.

Terdema Ussery is President & CEO of the Dallas Mavericks. He has served as president of Nike Sports Management which was integral in the launch of Coca-Cola's POWERADE brand. He was also the original CEO of HDNet, responsible for negotiating the company's initial content and distribution deals.

Author of numerous NYT bestselling books, Dinesh D'Souza is a noted conservation and defines conservatism in the American sense as "conserving the principles of the American Revolution". He is currently the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

A Baptist minister, political and civil rights and social justice activist, and radio talk show host of Keepin It Real, Al Sharpton fights injustice wherever he finds it. He makes regular guest appearances on The O'Reilly Factor and MSNBC and is praised as "a man who is willing to tell it like it is".

The New York Times bestseller - The Faith Club; A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding. An interfaith memoir of spiritual reflections written in three voices and now a moving presentation will help your audiences look at themselves, their lives and the broader world in a new way. Pioneering, timely, and deeply thoughtful, The Faith Club's caring message will resonate with people of all faiths.

One of the earliest pop culture bloggers, founding PopandPolitics.com in 1995, Farai Chideya is a novelist, journalist and radio host of News & Notes on NPR. Her first novel, Kiss the Sky, is due May 2009. She has worked for Newsweek magazine, MTV News, CNN, ABC and the Oxygen Network.

The first African-American to direct a major presidential campaign, Donna Brazile is a veteran political strategist, university professor, author, columnist, and the Democratic National Committee's Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation. She is an Adjunct Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, a weekly contributor and political commentator on CNN's The Situation Room and Election Coverage.

Born in Miami's low-income Liberty City, his passion to learn and his hunger for greatness catapulted him from dee-jay to broadcast manager, from community activist to community leader, from political commentator to three-term legislator, from a banquet and night-club emcee to a premier keynote speaker. Brown is the author of Live Your Dreams and the newly released book It's Not Over Until You Win.

Former running back for the Dallas Cowboys, Emmitt Smith rewrote the team and the NFL's record books. He is a three-time Super Bowl Champion and four-time NFL rushing leader. Since retiring Emmitt has been involved in many charitable causes and was the winner of the 2007 TV show, Dancing with the Stars.

Beyond his unprecedented accomplishments at an early age in business, Ephren Taylor is an author, inspirational speaker, and real estate mastermind. His first book, "Creating Success from the Inside Out", is an Amazon and CEO Read best seller. The book serves as an expose of the mindset of today's multi-millionaires while defining success as not only attaining wealth, but how to utilize it.