The library will host seven speakers throughout February. Those speakers include novelist and professor Jesmyn Ward; comedian, content creator, and host Amanda Seals; poet, activist, and scholar Sonia Sanchez; hip-hop artist Talib Kweli; attorney Benjamin Crump; Misty Copeland, the first Black principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater; actor and author Courtney B. Vance; and psychologist and author Dr. Robin L. Smith.