Stephen Belyea is currently head of the Art Department at Boston's Cathedral High School, where he also teaches classes focusing on issues of racism in America. Martin H. Blatt is the Chief of Cultural Resources/Historian at Boston National Historical Park. David W. Blight, Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College, has written widely on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history. Thomas J. Brown, Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, is the author of Dorothea Dix, New England Reformer (1998). Thomas Cripps, University Distinguished Professor retired at Morgan State University, has written five books, among them Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942 (1997).

Kathryn Greenthal is a Trustee of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Cornish, New Hampshire. James Oliver Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University, is also Director of the African American Communities Project of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. General Colin L. Powell, twelfth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993, was the youngest person and the first African American to hold the most senior position in the armed forces of the United States. Edwin S. Redkey, emeritus Professor of History, Purchase College, State University of New York, has written widely on African American history. Marilyn Richardson is a former curator of Boston's Museum of Afro American History and the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill. Kirk Savage is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pittsburgh.

James Smethurst, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Florida, is the author of The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African-American Poetry, 1930-1946 (1999). Cathy Stanton is a freelance writer who has produced many works in genre fiction, playwriting, and other areas. Helen Vendler, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, is the author of books on Yeats, Stevens, Herbert, Keats, Heaney, and Shakespeare and is the editor of The Harvard Book of Contemporary Poetry. Denise Von Glahn, Assistant Professor of Music History at Florida State University, specializes in twentieth-century and American music. Joan Waugh, Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles, is the author of Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (1997). Donald Yacovone, Associate Editor for the Massachusetts Historical Society, has written on the history of abolitionism, reform, gender, and nineteenth-century African American history.