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With a career spanning theater, television and film, Charles S. Dutton is one of the few actors to earn Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the same role. Best-known for his performance in the title role of the comedy-drama *Roc*, Dutton also starred in director Robert Altman's comedy-drama *Cookie's Fortune*, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Some of Dutton's additional films include *Random Hearts*, co-starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas, *D-Tox*, opposite Sylvester Stallone, and *Gothika*, with Halle Berry and Robert Downey Jr. Dutton earned a B.A. from Towson State University and became active in Baltimore Theater.

Elvis Mitchell has hosted The Treatment, with its inside look at the creators of popular culture, since KCRW first aired the program in April of 1996. Mitchell served as the film critic at the New York Times from January 2000 until May of 2005. In October 2002, he gave the prestigious Alain Locke lectures on African American culture at Harvard University, and subsequently, has been a visiting lecturer at Harvard in Visual and Environmental Studies, and in African American Studies. The former entertainment critic for NPRs Weekend Edition, Mitchell has also been film critic at the Fort Worth Star Telegram, where he received the 1999 AASFE award for criticism, the LA Weekly and the Detroit Free Press. He has been editor-at-large at Spin magazine and is special correspondent for Interview magazine. He also hosts the TCM interview program Under the Influence. A WGA Award nominee for his work on The AFI Lifetime Achievement Award: Sidney Poitier, he produced and co-created The Black List, Volume One, a documentary focusing on achievement in the African American community that HBO acquired and ran after the films debut at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (where Mitchell has twice served on the Dramatic Competition Jury). Featuring interviews with Slash, Chris Rock, Colin Powell and Toni Morrison, The Black List, Volume 1 recently received the NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary. An accompanying book is available as an audio book and eBook. A sequel, The Black List, Volume 2, featuring interviews with Laurence Fishburne, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Melvin Van Peebles, Maya Rudolph and RZA, will air on HBO on February 26, 2009.

Rev. Michael Himes is an ordained priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn and is professor of theology at Boston College. He has also served as professor and Academic Dean of the Seminary of Immaculate Conception on Long Island, NY and as associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He received his doctorate in the History of Christianity from the University of Chicago. Father Himes is the author of three books: *Ongoing Incarnation* (Herder & Herder, 1997), *Doing the Truth in Love* (Paulist, 1995), and, with his brother Kenneth, *Fullness of Faith* (Paulist 1993). He has translated Johann Sebastian Drey's *Brief Introduction to the Study of Theology* (Notre Dame Press, 1994), and has edited four other volumes. He has also contributed essays to numerous scholarly and popular journals.

Dr. Kenneth Guscott is one of the leading minority business entrepreneurs and community activists in Boston. The former head of the Boston NAACP during the civil rights movement, he is responsible for designing and developing their Positive Program for Boston, a human resources initiative providing employment opportunities and a summer management internship program in Greater Boston industries. In his latest venture, Guscott has worked for 15 years on One Lincoln Street. This 36-story structure in Boston's financial District will be the largest office building in America financed and planned by minority groups. Guscott is also the founder and general partner of the Long Bay Management Company, a real estate development firm that owns and manages 1100 multi-family housing units, commercial, retail and office space.

James P. Breeden was born October 14, 1934, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1956. He attended Union Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1960. He received his doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1972. Dean Breeden's career has spanned civil rights activism, education, and the ministry; this collection of his papers places heavy emphasis on his activities in two of these areas, civil rights and education. He was appointed Dean of the Tucker Foundation in 1984. James Breeden's interest in civil rights activism began in 1961, when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi while seeking restaurant service in a local bus terminal. He has worked with several civil rights organizations, including the Episcopal Society for Racial and Cultural Unity (ESCRU) to fight racial discrimination within the Episcopal Church. Breeden's role as Executive Director of the Citywide Coordinating Council in Boston brought him into the heart of the turbulent struggle over desegregation of the public schools in that city. Since coming to the College, Dean Breeden has been active and outspoken in the anti-apartheid movement on the campus and in the nation.