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2008
Presidential Election Speakers
"Shaping Minds One Speech at a Time"
The 2008 Presidential Election is just around the corner in November and there are many key issues facing the United States. Either Barack Obama, or John McCain will become president of the United States and will lead America through one of its toughest times in history. The Economy and the War in Iraq are the biggest election issues facing voters today, while the Healthcare crisis comes in as a close third. With these challenges, we need a strong and competent leader to lead this great country through times of change and struggle.
Below is a list of Great
Political Speakers who can address issues facing the United States
in 2008. These individuals have years of experience in academia,
politics, business, and journalism. These speakers are great to talk
to colleges for conferences and forums related to the upcoming
election and how Americans can make informed decisions about the
candidates. There is a mix of democrat speakers and republican
speakers below and a variety of thought provoking opinions. If you
would like to bring one of these individuals in to speak, please
fill out the form found at the bottom of the page and a Great Black
Speaker representative will respond as soon as possible.
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Featured Speakers for 2008 Presidential Election
 Donna
Brazile - Political Commentator; Chair of the Voting
Rights InstitutePrice Range: Call For Quote Categories: Women in Society, Politics and Gov't, Education Donna Brazile is one of the best known, most influential African American women in modern American political life. She is Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute (VRI), an organization established in 2001 to help protect and promote the rights of all Americans to participate in the political process. Brazile is the author of Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics, a memoir about her life in the political arena, and co-author of What We Do Now, published by Melville House in 2004. Brazile, a well-versed Democratic political strategist, made history as the first African American women to lead a major presidential campaign when she served as Campaign Manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000. Read More... |
 Don
Lemon - CNN News Anchor and
Award Winning JournalistPrice Range: Call For Quote Categories: Politics and Gov't, Communication, Inspirational, Motivation Don Lemon anchors the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom with Kyra Phillips each weekday. Based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Lemon joined CNN in September 2006. Lemon joined CNN after serving as a co-anchor for the 5
p.m. newscast for NBC5 News in Chicago. He joined the
station in August 2003 as an anchor and reporter after
working in New York as a correspondent for NBC News, The
Today Show and NBC Nightly News. In addition
to his reporting in New York, Lemon worked as an anchor on
Weekend Today and on MSNBC. While at NBC, Lemon
covered the explosion of Space Shuttle Columbia, SARS in
Canada and numerous other stories of national and global
importance.
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"Cousin" Jeff Johnson Price Range: $8000 - $10000 Topics: BECOME Activists - Building Effective Campus Organizations and Maintaining Excellence Unclaimed Legacy: Who Will Lead Our Next Social Movement Jeff Johnson is a political motivator and
social commentator speaking to baby boomers, the Hip-Hop
generation and to Generation Y – the leaders of today and
yesterday. He has a long history for rallying the troops
stemming from his days at the University of Toledo when he
became the first person of color to be the President of
Student Government. Upon graduation he headed to Washington,
DC and was the National Director for the NAACP’s Youth and
College Division, and then was later tapped by Russell
Simmons to be the Vice President for the Hip-Hop Summit
Action Network. Read More... |
 Angela
McGlowan - Conservative Political Commentator and
Political Strategist Price Range: $6000 - $12000 Topics: Politics, Motivation, Media, Communication, Presentation Skills Angela McGlowan is the founder and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights (PSI), a government affairs, political strategy, public relations, and advocacy consulting firm based in Washington, DC. With a wealth of federal legislative, press-related, and corporate experience, Angela McGlowan offers a fresh and unique perspective on the Washington political landscape. From 1999 to 2005, Ms. McGlowan served as Director of Government Affairs and Diversity Development for Chairman Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and as such was responsible for the development and implementation of aggressive diversity initiatives within the Fox Entertainment Group and its owned and operated interests. Read More... |
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 Dr.
Julianne MalveauxPresident of Bennett College for Women, Economist, and Women's Activist Price Range: $10,000 - $12,000 Categories: Race, Culture, Gender, and Economics Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the President of Bennett College for Women. Recognized for her progressive and insightful observations, she is also an economist, author and commentator, and has been described by Dr. Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country.” Dr. Malveaux’s contributions to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts, are shaping public opinion in 21st century |
 Kelly
Wright - Former Anchor of Fox
News & Friends; Emmy Award Winning JournalistPrice Range: Call for Quote Categories: Politics, Media, Religion, Motivation As the former co-Anchor of “FOX & Friends Weekend”, television personality, professional speaker, singer and minister, Kelly Wright is touching lives with a powerful and passionate message of faith, hope, and love. He challenges people to develop an abiding faith in God and their God-given abilities to believe the unbelievable, achieve the unachievable, and fulfill their impossible dreams. It is a message Kelly Wright has learned firsthand and he is helping others to do the same. Read More... |
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 Dr.
Marc Lamont Hill - Professor,
Author, Political AnalystPrice Range: $3500 - $7000 Topics: Politics, Hip Hop Culture, Sexuality, Education, and Religion Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the youngest members of the growing body of “Hip-Hop Intellectuals” in the country. Dr. Hill has lectured widely and provides regular commentary for numerous radio, television and print media outlets such as The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Essence Magazine, Radio America, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. In 2005, Ebony Magazine named him one of America's top 30 Black leaders under 30 years old. Dr. Hill is a professor at Temple University and his research focuses on the intersections between youth, popular culture, and pedagogy. Video Footage of Dr. Hill: Dr. Marc Lamont Hill Debates Heroism on Fox News. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill and Bill O'Reilly Discuss California Fires. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's Opinions on Cities Suing Gang Members. |
 Farai
Chideya - Host of National Public Radio's New and
Notes; Political SpeakerPrice Range: $10000 - $15000 Topics: Politics, Civil Rights, Women in Society, Black History, Diversity, Media Farai Chideya is a multimedia journalist who has worked in print, television, online, and radio. Prior to joining NPR's News & Notes, Chideya hosted Your Call, a daily news and cultural call-in show on San Francisco's KALW 91.7 FM. Chideya has also been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women's channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. She got her start as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. In 1997 Newsweek named her to its "Century Club" of 100 people to watch. Chideya, who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated with a B.A. from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1990, is also the founder of PopandPolitics.com, an online journal for younger Americans based at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications. Read More... |
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Dr. Boyce Watkins -
Professor, Author, and Social Activist Dr. Boyce Watkins has presented his message to millions, appearing regularly on CNN, ESPN, Fox News, and many more national media outlets. Although Dr. Watkins has his Ph.D. in finance, he is also an expert on a variety of topics including education and black social commentary. Read more... Video Footage of Dr. Watkins: |
 Joseph
C. Phillips - Bestselling Author, Actor, and
Political CommentatorPrice Range: Call for Quote Topics: Republican Political Speaker, Media, Education, Inspirational Joseph is perhaps best known for the role of Lt. Martin
Kendall, Lisa Bonet’s husband, on the hit series The
Cosby Show. He was also a three time NAACP Image
Award Nominee for his portrayal of Attorney Justus Ward on
the Daytime Drama General Hospital. For two
seasons he appeared as Mayor Morgan Douglas on the CBS
series The District, recurred as Marcus Johnson on
the hit CBS series Without A Trace and most
recently appeared as JT Morse on the Fox Series,
Vanished. He has had guest starring roles on C.S.I.,
Las Vegas, Jack and Bobby, The King of Queens,
Judging Amy, Family Law, Martin,
The Larry Sanders Show, City of Angeles,
Any Day Now, The Parkers, Popular,
V.I.P. and Living Single among others.
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 Carl
Jeffers - Television Commentator, Lecturer, and
Political AnalystPrice Range: $5000 - $10000 Topics: Politics, Social Commentary, Media, Tour of America, Motivation Carl Jeffers is an editorial contributor to The Seattle Times, and is a nationally renowned Television political commentator, radio talk show host, lecturer, political analyst and featured speaker and consultant. In addition to his ongoing activity as an editorial contributor to The Seattle Times, Jeffers has recently also been named as a columnist-contributor to the HuffingtonPost website, a site that has rapidly become one of the premier progressive philosophy sites on the internet. |
 Peniel
Joseph - Black Empowerment Expert and Harvard
University Professor.Price Range: Call For Quote Topics: Politics, Black History, Motivation, Education Peniel E. Joseph is one of the nation’s leading scholars of African American history. Although Joseph’s formal expertise includes the Black Radical Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Black Social Movements, and African American feminism, he is currently embarking on a re-evaluation of the Black Power Movement. Professor Joseph is associate professor of African and Afro-American Studies and affiliate faculty in history at Brandeis University. Joseph is the founder of a growing subfield of historical and Africana Studies scholarship that he has named “Black Power Studies.” This new scholarship, which connects grassroots activism to national struggles for black self-determination and international African independence movements, is actively rewriting postwar African American history. |
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