Black gay researcher and performer E. Patrick Johnson travels to the South to come to terms with his past and reconnect with six Black gay men he interviewed for the book "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South-An Oral History."

John L. Jackson, Jr. is a filmmaker and urban anthropologist who works at the intersection of visual culture, critical race theory, media studies, and the ethnography of diasporic religions.He is the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice and Special Adviser to the Provost on Diversity at Penn.

Nora Gross received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania in Education and Sociology, where she was a Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellow and also worked with the Program in Urban Studies, the Center for Experimental Ethnography, the Center for Africana Studies, and the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA). Her research focuses primarily on under-explored sources of educational inequity, particularly at the intersection of adolescent students' racial identities, gender identities, academic identities, emotionality, and future orientation. As a documentary filmmaker, she is also committed to using visual and participatory methods as part of her scholarly research practice.