James Braxton Peterson is Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University. He is the author of The Hip Hop Underground and African American Culture and hosts “The Remix” on Philadelphia NPR affiliate, WHYY. Peterson is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post, and a contributor to TheGrio.com and MSNBC.

John Jennings is an Associate Professor at the University of Buffalo, NY.

Michael Eric Dyson, is a three-time NAACP Award winner, an American Book Award winner, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of sixteen books, including I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.