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David L. Cohen

Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer Comcast Corporation

High-speed Internet... social media... broadband... mobile apps... online...e-commerce... smartphones... digital streaming... selfies... GPS systems.

These words were not part of the national vocabulary 50 years ago.

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Kristen Clarke

Assistant Attorney General For Civil Rights U.S. Department of Justice

As the country remains focused on the ways in which Russia interfered with the integrity of the recent 2016 election, we must not forget to focus equal attention to the ongoing threat of voter suppression.  Voter suppression and ongoing voting discrimination stand as grav

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Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke

New York – 9th Congressional District

For the past eleven years, I have had the honor of representing the Ninth Congressional District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, I represent the very community that raised me. I still live on the same block where I grew up as a child in Central Brooklyn.

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Melanie L. Campbell

PRESIDENT & CEO, NATIONAL COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION; CONVENER, BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE

Black women are making indelible marks in the technology industry as leaders, entrepreneurs and influencers in the nation’s digital economy and are leading advocates for digital justice.

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Michael Weinstein

President AIDS Healthcare Foundation

On February 1, 1968, two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death under their truck’s malfunctioning garbage compactor.

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