Founder and Director for the Center for the African Diaspora and Director of Development for the Museum of Muslim Cultures

Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Author of the book Prince Among Slaves and a key advisor on the project

Descendant of Abduhl Rahahman, a community leader and a PhD student in Ethics at Loyola University in Chicago

Popular writer of fiction, history, and biography. Author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves

Chairman of Howard University’s African Studies Department

Professor of History at NYU and key advisor for the film

Award-winning author, activist and lecturer, and the daughter of Malcolm X.

Millennium Chair and Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Indiana University

Genealogical expert on Abdul Rahman’s family lineage

Professor of History at the Univ. of Tennessee, expert in Jackson-Era politics and social history