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**Life Story Features
**A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
**The American President
**Becoming Warren Buffett
**John Lewis: His Last March
**King In the Wilderness
**Lincoln's Dilemma
**Makers: Women Who Make America
**The Newspaperman
**Obama: In Pursuit Of A More Perfect Union
**The Soul of America
**True Justice
**Gloria: In Her Own Words
**John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls
Clifford Alexander
Former U.S. Secretary of the Army
Devin Allen
Photographer
Byllye Avery
Activist
Loretta Augustine-Herron
Community Organizer
Joan Baez
Musician & Activist
Leslie Parks-Bailey
Gordon Parks' Daughter
Harry Belafonte
Actor & Activist
Maurice Berger
Cultural Historian
Mary Frances Berry
Historian
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Poet & Prison Reform Advocate
Joanne Bland
Activist
Quinn Bradlee
Author and Filmmaker
Carol Moseley Braun
U.S Senator
Philip Brookman
Curator
David Brooks
Columnist, The New York Times
Lonnie Bunch
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Barbara Burns
Coal Miner & Activist
Xernona Clayton
Activist
Hillary Clinton
U.S. Politician
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Author & Journalist
Jelani Cobb
Historian & Author
Dorothy Cotton
Activist
Katie Couric
Journalist
Ava DuVernay
Filmmaker
Michael Eric Dyson
Author & Professor
Marian Wright Edelman
Activist
Patricia Eng
Founder of the New York Asian Women’s Center
Diane English
Writer & Director
Richard Fernandez
Activist
Mary Lou Finley
Activist
Nicole Fleetwood
Art Historian & Curator
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Photographer
Melinda Gates
Philanthropist
Nelson George
Writer & Filmmaker
Tom Houck
Activist
Sherrilyn Ifill
Lawyer
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Author & Activist
Jesse Jackson
Activist & Politician
Clarence Jones
Civil Rights Attorney
Jerry Kellman
Community Organizer
Keegan-Michael Key
Comedian
Billie Jean King
Tennis Champion and Social Activist
Bernard Lafayette
Activist & Organizer
Spike Lee
Filmmaker
Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
Author & Activist
John Lewis
Politician & Civil Rights Activist
Alvin Love
Pastor
Catharine MacKinnon
Legal Scholar & Activist
Ian Manuel
Poet & Activist
Sam Massell
Politician & Businessman
DeRay Mckesson
Activist
Judd Miner
Civil Rights Lawyer
Rita Moreno
Actor
Khalil Muhammad
Historian & Professor
Diane Nash
Activist
Michele Norris
Journalist
Barack Obama
U.S. President, 2009-2017
Danica Patrick
American Race Car Driver
Lynn Povich
Journalist
Michal Raz-Russo
Curator
Robert Redford
Actor/Director
David Remnick
Journalist
Amy Richards
Writer & Activist
Cecile Richards
President, Planned Parenthood
2006-2018
Faith Ringgold
Artist & Activist
Barbara "Dusty" Roads
Flight Attendant & Activist
Betty Rollin
Journalist & Author
Paul Roth
Curator
Richard Roundtree
Actor
Bobby Rush
Politician & Activist
Cleveland Sellers
Activist
Jamel Shabazz
Photographer
Reverend Al Sharpton
Civil Rights Activist
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Writer & Activist
Shirley Sherrod
Activist
Barbara Smith
Activist
Mario Sprouse
Musician & Composer
Gloria Steinem
Writer & Activist
Bryan Stevenson
Founder, Equal Justice Initiative
C. Vivian Stringer
Basketball Coach
Kathrine Switzer
Marathon Runner
George Takei
Actor & Activist
V
Playwright
C.T. Vivian
Minister & Activist
Alice Walker
Author
Darren Walker
President, Ford Foundation
Cornel West
Philosopher & Activist
Andrew Young
U.S. Ambassador
Genevieve Young
Gordon Parks' Wife
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