a film by McGee Media and Inkwell Films ; series producer, Julia Marchesi ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Films and WETA Washington, DC
edited by Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo ; foreword by Eric Foner ; preface by Spencer R. Crew ; contributions by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Mary Elliott, Candra Flanagan, Katherine Franke, Thavolia Glymph, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Kathleen M. Kendrick, and Kidada E. Williams