Scholarly Advisory Committee
- Michael Blakey, Professor of Archaeology, College of William & Mary and former Director of Investigation, Howard University, Skeletal Biology Lab
- Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “America in the King Years”, a three-volume study of the Civil Rights Movement
- Johnnetta B. Cole, Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and former President of Spelman College
- Drew S. Days III, Professor of Law, Yale University, and former U.S. Solicitor General
- Deborah L. Mack, Independent Museum and Academic Consultant and Curator, Savannah, Ga.
- Alfred Moss, Professor of African American, U.S. Social and U.S. Religious History, University of Maryland
- Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art History, Duke University
- Clement A. Price, Professor of History, Rutgers University
- Bernice Johnson Reagon, Professor Emeritus of History, American University, Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Alvia J. Wardlaw, Professor of Art History and Director/Curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Deborah Willis, Chair, Photography and Imaging and African Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University