Al Sutton, MD

Advocate for ending the ongoing racist genocide in Sudan since 2012, when he founded African Freedom Coalition with charter members David Livingstone Smith and Molefi Asante. Previously, in 1970, he marched for civil rights with Hosea Williams and the S.C.L.C. in Macon, Georgia. After becoming  a whistleblower at the hospital of his employment, he retired from medicine in 1985.

Molefi Kete Asante

Professor and Chair, Department of Africology at Temple University in Philadelphia.  He is the co-founder of Afrocentricity International and is President of the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies.  Asante was a Guest Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and is Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa. He is the Founding and Current Editor, Journal of Black Studies. Asante, often called the most prolific African American scholar, has published 92 books, among the most recent are Radical Insurgencies, The History of Africa, 3rd Edition; The African American People: A Global History;  Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation; Revolutionary Pedagogy; African American History: A Journey of Liberation; African Pyramids of Knowledge; Facing South to Africa, and, the memoir, As I Run Toward Africa. 

Asante has published more than 500 articles and is considered one of the most quoted living African authors as well as one of the most distinguished thinkers in the African world. He has been recognized as one of the 10 most widely cited African scholars. 

David Livingstone Smith

Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England, Maine. He has published nine books, including Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others (St. Martin's Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf award for nonfiction, and On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Oxford University Press, 2020). 

David is an interdisciplinary scholar, whose publications are cited not only by other philosophers, but also by historians, legal scholars, psychologists, and anthropologists. He has been featured in several prime-time television documentaries, is often interviewed and cited in the national and international media, and was a guest at the 2012 G20 economic summit, where he spoke about dehumanization and mass violence.