Past Diversity Lecture Series Speakers
1987
Margaret Avery
1988
Maya Angelou
1989
Dr. Lionel C. Barrow
Dr. Janice Hale Benson
Maya Angelou
Carole Simpson
1990
Dr. Jacqueline Fleming
Dr. Joseph Lowery
Martina Arroyo,
1991
Dr. Asa Hilliard
Dr. Ted Williams
Gwendolyn Brooks
Derek Walcott
The Meeting
1992
Dr. Vivian Gordan
Dr. James Farmer
1993
Lucille Clifton
Spike Lee
William Warfield
1994
Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders
Nikki Giovanni
1995
Dr. Maki Mandela
Dr. Benjamin Chavis
Kimberly Aiken
1996
Dr. Phakamile Gongo
Amiri Baraka
Robert Townsend
1997
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Dr. Bertice Beny, Sociologist
1998
Morris Dees
1999
Jennifer Harbury
2000
Julian Bond
Sinbad
2001
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
2002
Dr. Manning Matable
Coretta Scott King
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
bell hooks
2003
Dr. Cornel West
Dr. Lee Jones
Mari Evans
Salmon Rushdie
Charles Johnson
Tavis Smiley
Edward James Olmos
Russell Sunmons
Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry Jam
2004
Linda Brown Thompson and Cheryl Brown Henderson
Shoshana Johnson
Amy Tan
It's Showtime at The Apollo on Tour
Harry Belafonte
2005
Kweisi Mfume
President William Jefferson Clinton
Danny Glover, Award-winning Actor
Arturo Sandoval
Soledad O'Brien
2006
Dr. Mae C. Jemison
Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
The Honorable J.C. Watts
President George H.W. Bush
Susan L. Taylor, Author
2007
Dr. John Hope Franklin and Dr. Henry Louis Gates
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Maxine Hong Kingston
2008
The Three Doctors (Dr. Samson Davis, Dr. Rameck Hunt,
Dr. George Jenkins)
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Rev. Marcia Dyson
Wilma Mankiller
General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
Mayor Cory Booker
Former Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele
Mayor Gregory Ballard
Mariane Pearl
2009
Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.
Marian Wright Edelman
Ishmael Beah
Carlos Fuentes
2010
Dr. Madeleine Albright
Sandy 'Pepa' Denton
Jeff Johnson
Yung Joc
John Legend
2011
Andrew Young
2012
Leymah Gbowee
Kirk Franklin
America Ferrera
Dan Rather