Dhoruba Bin Wahad was a leading member of the New York Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary of the BPP responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21. Arrested in June 1971, he was framed as part of the illegal FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and subjected to unfair treatment and torture during his nineteen years in prison. During Dhoruba's incarceration, litigation on his behalf produced over 300,000 pages of COINTELPRO documentation, and upon release in 1990 he was able to bring a successful lawsuit against the New York Department of Corrections for their criminal activities. Living in both Ghana and the U.S., Dhoruba continues to write and work promoting Pan Africanism, an uncompromising critique of imperialism and capitalism, and freedom for all political prisoners.

Kalonji Jama Changa, an organizer and founder of the FTP Movement, is author of How to Build a People's Army and co-producer of the documentary Organizing Is the New Cool. Founder of Black Power Media, Changa serves as co-chair of the Urban Survival and Preparedness Institute.

Joy James, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College, is the author of New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the After(life) of Erica Garner, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love, Beyond Cop Cities, as as well as the author or editor of numerous other books and articles.