Dr. Mia Bay is Professor of History at Rutgers University, where she directs the Center for Race and Ethnicity. She is the author of The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 and To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells.

Dr. Jonathan Holloway is Provost of Northwestern University and an historian who focuses on the post-emancipation United States with a focus on social and intellectual history. He is a fourth-generation university administrator, and author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 and Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940.