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Michelle Bernard - Michelle D. Bernard is the president of the Independent Women's Forum. Media appearances include MSNBC, ABC News Now, ABC Radio, America's Black Forum, BBC Radio, Black Americas Web.

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Roland S. Martin - Roland is a regular political contributor on CNN. He is also a syndicated columnist, radio talk show host and author.

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Juan Williams - Juan Williams is an Emmy Award winning American writer. He's a regular contributor on Fox News.

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Donna Brazile - Brazile is a weekly contributor and political commentator on CNN's The Situation Room and American Morning and in CNN's Election Coverage. She was also the first African American woman to run a major political campaign (Al Gore 2004).

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Clarence Page - Clarence Page is a journalist, syndicated columnist and member of the editorial board for the Chicago Tribune. He is an occasional panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a regular contributor of essays to NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and many other political talk shows.

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Eugene Robinson - Robinson is a newspaper columnist and assistant managing editor for The Washington Post. Robinson appears frequently on MSNBC as a political analyst.

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Jamal Simmons - Simmons is President of New Future Communications. He's a regular political analyst with CNN and has also appeared on MSNBC and the Fox News Channel.

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Harold Ford Jr. - Ford is the current chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. Ford is currently a political analyst for MSNBC, prior to that he was a political contributor for Fox News.

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Michael Steele - Steele is the chairman of the Republican political action group, GOPAC. He is a regular political contributor for Fox News.

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Amy Holmes - Holmes is a Republican strategist and political contributor for CNN and FOX News Channel.

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Kelli Goff - Kelli Goff is a popular blogger, author and commentator. She's appeared on a number of programs including: CNN's "Paula Zahn Now," "Reliable Sources," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Hannity & Colmes" and MSNBC.

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Keith Boykin - Keith Boykin is a lawyer, author and the editor of The Daily Voice online newspaper. He is a host of the BET television show "My Two Cents" and a frequent political commentator on CNN. he has appeared on "Anderson Cooper 360," "The O'Reilly Factor," "The Tyra Banks Show," "The Montel Williams Show," and "The Tom Joyner Morning Show."

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Terence Samuel - Terence Samuel is deputy editor of TheRoot.com and a former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report. He has appeared on PBS's "Washington Week," "Hardball" on MSNBC, CNN International and Fox News."

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Joe Perkins - Joseph Perkins is national affairs columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. Perkins has appeared on "Good Morning America," the "CBS Morning Show," ABC's "This Week," PBS' "NewsHour," CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC and MSNBC. He's also been a guest on MTV and ABC's "Politically Incorrect."

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Michael Eric Dyson - Dyson is a college professor and the author of 16 books, including Holler if You Hear Me and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He was the host of a daily syndicated talk radio program, "The Michael Eric Dyson Show," and is a regular commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, and the HBO TV program Real Time with Bill Maher American cultures and influence on American popular culture.

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Pamela Gentry - Pamela Gentry covers politics for BET News and writes a political blog for BET.com, “Pamela on Politics.” Gentry is a member of the White House Correspondents Association and appears on WUSA-TV 9, WJLA-TV, Fox News, CNN, the BBC, WOL Radio’s The Joe Madison Show; XM Radio’s presidential talk show POTUS ’08; Chicago’s WVON Radio, “The Roland Martin Show;” and The White House Chronicles on PBS.

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Joe Watkins - Watkins can be heard on the Philadelphia radio station, The Big Talker 1210 in addition to his television appearances on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. He is also a pastor of a Lutheran Church.