Here is a list of some of our signatories:
- adrienne maree brown - Writer, activist and facilitator; author of Emergent Strategy
- aja monet - Surrealist blues poet; author of My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
- Ajamu Baraka - International human rights activist, organizer, political analyst.
- Alan Pelaez Lopez - AfroIndigenous (Zapotec) poet, installation and adornment artist; author of Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs - Poet, independent scholar and human rights activist, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
- Andrea J. Ritchie - Organizer, Researcher, Author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black women and Women of Color
- Angela Y. Davis - Prison abolitionist, scholar and activist; author of Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- Angelica Ross - Actress in POSE and American Horror Story, Singer Songwriter, Founder of TransTech & Human Rights Advocate
- Arsema Thomas - Actress in Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
- Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson - Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Center
- Aurielle Marie - Award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural strategist
- Barbara Ransby - Activist, Historian and author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
- Barbara Smith - Black feminist, lesbian, activist, author, lecturer and publisher; co-founder of the Combahee River Collective and co-author of the Combahee River Collective Statement
- Beverly Guy Sheftall - Black feminist scholar, writer and editor; founding director of the Women’s Research at Spelman College
- Bill Fletcher Jr. - Racial justice, labor, and international activist
- Bisi Adjapon - author of The Teller of Secrets and Daugher in Exile
- Bree Newsome Bass - artist, grassroots organizer, removed south carolina’s confederate flag on june 27, 2015
- Brittney Cooper - professor, activist, and cultural critic; author of Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein - Associate Professor of Physics and author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
- Charlene A. Carruthers - writer, filmmaker, community organizer; founding national director of Black Youth Project 100
- Christina Sharpe - Professor and author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
- Cornel West - Philosopher, political activist, social critic, actor, and public intellectual
- Dara Cooper - activist, organizer, writer, and co-founder and former executive director of the National Black Food and Justice Alliance
- Derecka Purnell - human rights lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
- dream hampton - writer, organizer, award winning filmmaker
- Emory Douglas - Artist, Activist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party
- Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo aka SAMMUS - Black feminist rapper, producer, and scholar
- ericka huggins - educator, former Black Panther Party member, and political prisoner, human rights activist and poet.
- Eve L. Ewing- writer, scholar, cultural organizer and author of Electric Arches
- Feminista Jones - writer, public speaker, community activist, and retired social worker; author of Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets
- Fred Moten - Cultural theorist, poet, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
- Gina Dent - Scholar, activist and co-author of Abolition. Feminism. Now with Angela Davis
- Ijeoma Oluo - Writer, speaker and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race
- Indya Moore - Actress in POSE, writer, director, model, and social activist
- Jalil Muntaqim - political activist, veteran of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, former political prisoner
- Jamilah Lemieux - award-winning writer, podcast host, and public speaker
- jessica Care moore - Poet, Live Arts Producer, Author, Recording Artist, Publisher
- Johanna Fernandez - Historian, abolitionist and author of The Young Lords: A Radical History
- Jourdain Searles - writer, critic, film programmer, and comedian
- Kali Akuno - co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson and co-editor of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
- kehlani - Artist, singer and songwriter
- Kemi Alabi - Poet and author of Against Heaven
- Kierstan Bell - Professional basketball player and 2-time WNBA champion
- Kiese Laymon - writer, professor, author of Heavy and Long Division; 2022 MacArthur Fellow
- Kimya Dawson - singer-songwriter
- Lama Rod Owens - activist, authorized Lama (Buddhist Teacher), and author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger
- LISBET TELLEFSEN - archivist, collector and curator
- Madison McFerrin - independent singer, songwriter and producer
- Malkia Devich Cyril - activist, writer and public speaker
- Marbrè Stahly- Butts - former Executive Director of Law for Black Lives and co-founder of the National Bail Out Collective
- Marc Lamont Hill - award-winning journalist, professor, and media host; co-author of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
- Mariame Kaba - organizer, educator, archivist and curator; author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
- Mary Hooks - LGBTQ+ activist, former co-director of Southerners on New Ground
- MaryLouise Patterson - Human rights activist, co-editor of Letters from Langston From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
- Mereba - singer, rapper and producer
- Michael Bennett - retired NFL player and Super Bowl champion
- Montague Simmons - community organizer and human rights activist; former chair of the Organization for Black Struggle
- Mumia Abu-Jamal - political prisoner, award-winning radio journalist, and author of seven books
- Mustafa the poet - poet, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker
- Mykki Blanco - rapper, performance artist, poet and activist.
- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black
- Noname - rapper, poet, producer and founder of Noname Book Club
- nyle fort - minister, activist, and scholar
- Patrisse Cullors - artist, abolitionist, writer, and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter organization.
- Rahiel Tesfamariam - writer, public theologian, activist and speaker
- Ramona Africa - activist, sole adult survivor of the Philadelphia Police 1985 bombing of the MOVE headquarters
- Raquel Willis - award-winning activist, author, and media strategist dedicated to Black transgender liberation.
- Robin D. G. Kelley - historian, academic, and author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
- Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine - historian of Black radicalism, activist, author of The Revolution has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party
- Rosemari Mealy JD, PhD - activist-scholar and author of Fidel and Malcolm X: Memories of A Meeting
- Saul Williams - rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor
- Sekou Odinga - member of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro-American Unity; a founding member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party as well as the Black Panther International Section; combatant of the Black Liberation Army; and former political prisoner
- Sonya Renee Taylor - activist, artist, and New York Times best-selling author of The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love
- Toshi Reagon - composer, musician, with a profound ear for sonic Americana—from folk to funk, from blues to rock
- Vince Warren - Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights
- Warsan Shire - award winning poet and author of Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head