DREAMLEAPERS® with Harriette Cole

Regina Fleming is a photographic artist, photographer, CEO of Regina Fleming Photography, former model and actress, a motivational speaker, and a marathon runner. As a model, she signed with Wilhelmina and then Ford Models and pursued a long and fruitful modeling career. Over a 20 year span, she has appeared in 100s of publications including O Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Forbes, and Essence as we...

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Phylicia Fant is renowned throughout the entertainment industry as a trusted leader, esteemed executive, and public relations/marketing visionary. But even more importantly, she is a conduit of culture. Fant consistently and strategically connects artists to brands, media, film/television opportunities and philanthropic causes. In her role as Head of Music Industry and Culture Collaborations at Am...

Proclaimed a "national treasure" by the Los Angeles Times, GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and actor Anthony Hamilton has achieved global sales of over 50+ million albums. The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductee notably performed for President Obama and First Lady Michelle, cementing his place in the history books as the "narrator of love." Introduced by way of the iconi...

Emil Wilbekin, born on September 16, 1967, in Cincinnati, Ohio, is an American journalist, media executive, stylist, content creator, culture critic, and human rights activist. He has held prominent roles such as editor-in-chief of Vibe and Giant, editor-atlarge at Essence, managing editor of Essence.com, and chief content officer of Afropunk. Wilbekin is also the founder of Native Son Now, an org...

Dianne McIntyre has a career spanning five decades with choreography for dance, theatre, television, film and opera. A 2022 Dance Magazine Award Honoree, a 2023 Martha Hill Lifetime Achievement Award, United States Artists Fellowship, and Doris Duke Artist Award recipient. She has choreographed scores of concert dances, four Broadway shows, two operas, 35 regional theatre productions, three films,...

June Archer is an entrepreneur, music & television executive, tv personality, philanthropist and community leader. He started his career as a recording artist in the R&B group Room Service and is now the President & CEO of Eleven28 Entertainment Group. June is also a motivational teacher, author and educator. He is the host of "The Winners Circle" on "Thisis50" on YouTube/Instagram/iTunes, author...

Kecia Lewis is celebrating 40 years in the entertainment industry. She made her Broadway debut at 18 years old, performing in the original company of Dreamgirls. Her other Broadway credits include The Gospel at Colonus, Big River, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Once on This Island, The Drowsy Chaperone, Chicago, Leap of Faith, Cinderella, and Children of a Lesser God. Kecia has also starred in numerous Off-Br...

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Lauren currently serves as Founder and CEO of the ColorComm Corporation. ColorComm Corporation is a privately held holding company with communications, public relations, and media companies in its portfolio. ColorComm Corporation owns the ColorComm Network, ColorComm Search, ColorComm Media Group and Men of Color in Communication. In 2011, Lauren founded the ColorComm Corporation, to serve the nee...

Brandice Daniel is the founder of Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) and a fashion industry expert with experience in buying, production and bridging the gap for designers of color. She has led collaborations with major brands including Nike, LVMH, Tommy Hilfiger, and Tiffany & Co. In 2020, she founded a non-profit organization, ICON360 that has donated over $2 million to HBCU fashion departments and blac...

Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019. He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack...

Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and two-time Emmy award-winning Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, and the New York Times bestselling author of MADNESS. She is also the cohost of the hit podcasts Southlake and Grapevine. From 2016 to 2020, Antonia was a Correspondent and Producer for Vice Media and HBO’s nightly news and documentary show, Vice News Tonight. Since 2019, she has also served as an ann...

Matthew Jordan Smith is a renowned professional photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. With a dynamic career spanning Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles, he has captured iconic images of world-renowned figures, including Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie, Angela Bassett, Sofia Vergara, Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah, Courtney B. Vance, Tyra Banks, Britney Spears, and Zendaya. Esteemed brands like Sh...

Tanisha C. Ford is a cultural critic and star academic. A professor of history at The Graduate Center, CUNY, she has written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, Time, the Root, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and featured on NPR, among other places. In 2019, she was named to the Root’s list of the 100 Most influential African Americans. Ford is the author of Dressed in Dreams, Kwame Brathwaite: Black is...

Rhonda Ross is an Emmy-Nominated Actress, Grammy-Nominated Songwriter and Motivational Singer who helps people FEEL BETTER through the POWER of THOUGHT. ​As the only child between Diana Ross and Motown founder, Berry Gordy, Rhonda is quick to acknowledge the luck she was born into having two of the world’s most influential people as her parents, however, partly as a result of comparing herself to...

Mickalene Thomas was born and raised in New Jersey and lives and works in New York. One of the most influential artists today, her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while dissec...

American Negra: A Memoir is one woman's search to find her own voice. Born from an African American father and Puerto Rican mother in a working-class family in Syracuse, NY, she is confronted with issues with identity, conflicting standards of beauty from family members and her community, layered with feelings of inferiority as a Harvard bound Afro Latina young woman who did not have the academic...

For 30 years, Michelle has been an advocate and activist for the at-risk and marginalized. Her heart is especially tender toward disenfranchised youth. ​She noticed that young people needed someone to listen, encourage, and provide a safe space for them. She created a place that immersed students in history, "real talk," spoken word and visual art. This experience birthed an arts-centered diversio...

Join me for a conversation this Saturday with Tamala Jones, film and television actor starring in Ordinary Angels in theaters everywhere on Feb 23rd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

K. Zauditu Selassie received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Baltimore and the Doctor of Arts degree from Clark Atlanta University and is a retired Professor of English. She is the author of an award-winning book of literary criticism, African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison. She has traveled the world from Compton to Cairo, from Bamako to Baltimore, and Addi...

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Clay Cane was born in Washington State and later moved to Philadelphia, PA as a teenager with his mother. Not much is said about his family but in an interview with Vibe magazine he did say “ My mother has nothing more than an eighth grade education and she gave me some serious ​affirmation” in response to a question about how supportive his mother was of him being a young black gay boy. He also s...

Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America and, coming in January 2024, BE A REVOLUTION: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can, Too. Her work on race has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times...

Two time “Bessie Award” winner, Hope Boykin was an original member of Complexions, danced with Philadanco, and completed 20 years with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Hope has choreographed for numerous dance companies including Philadanco, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Minnesota Dance Theater, Ballet X, Eisenhower Dance Detroit, Ballet Black of London, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company...