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In the wake of the recent mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, members of March for Our Lives, a youth-led organization dedicated to eliminating the epidemic of gun violence, are urging people to join them in a protest on Saturday in Washington D.C. and across the nation. The group’s aim is to implore Congress to pass universal background checks.

June marks the beginning of LGBTQ+ Pride Month! As we honor this month, and celebrate diversity and individuality, we invite you to check out some of our leading voices from the LGBTQ+ community:

We all want to experience life satisfaction and emotional health. But getting to that place is another matter. From lockdowns to isolation, ongoing racial injustice to political turmoil, lost lives and lost jobs, these past couple of years have tested our minds and bodies in profound ways. In what has quickly become an incredibly popular podcast, "Addy Hour," hosted by APB exclusive speaker Dr. Nii Addy, explores topics at the intersection of brain science, mental health, faith, culture and social justice.

APB speaker Vaclav Smil, a renowned expert on energy, environment, food and technical advances, was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine. The Q&A article focused on Smil’s view on climate change and how climate activists need “to get real.” Smil argues that the goal set at last fall’s 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference to reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 is unrealistic. “This is undoable because there’s just eight years left, and emissions are still rising,” Smil says in the article. “People don’t appreciate the magnitude of the task and are setting up artificial deadlines which are unrealistic.”

A luminary emerging among CGI influencers, Joerg Zuber is taking the concept of digital communication to unconventional heights. His combined love for fashion, beauty, and self-expression led him to create Noonoouri, one of the most successful virtual influencers on Instagram with 374,000 followers and counting.

Imagine having lived two lives: 1) A highly successful Black corporate executive 2) A former gang member who served multiple prison sentences. Larry G. Miller seemed like he had it all. With hard work, leadership skills and lots of smarts, he climbed the corporate ladder and had risen to the pinnacle of success: leading Nike’s Jordan Brand from a $150 million sneaker company to a $4 billion global apparel juggernaut. And yet for the past five-plus decades, he has also been haunted by a violent act he committed at just 16-years-old and the subsequent years he spent in prison—a fact that he kept secret after being turned down for a job because of his record.

Best-selling author and APB speaker Wil Haygood’s biography of Sammy Davis, Jr. will be turned into a limited television series on Hulu. Eight episodes have been ordered by the network based on the book In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Elijah Kelley is set to play the lead role. Filmmaker Lee Daniels will write the series with frequent collaborator Thomas Westfall. Daniels and Haygood will produce. 

APB speaker and famed Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa—affectionally known as Dr. Q—was recently interviewed by José Díaz-Balart on the “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” podcast. Dr. Q spoke with Díaz-Balart about his impoverished childhood in a small village near Mexicali, Mexico, and how he went from a migrant worker picking tomatoes in Central California to Harvard Medical School to neurosurgeon.

Is your business ready for the next phase of the internet? Experts in their fields, these speakers explain what means for you.

For Cleve Jones, author and longtime renowned LGBTQ activist, the first time he realized his life’s purpose was the day he saw Harvey Milk’s corpse lying on the floor of San Francisco’s City Hall. Milk, a gay rights pioneer and city supervisor, was shot and killed in the City by the Bay in 1978. Since then, Jones has given a voice to the voiceless, organized the struggling and disenfranchised and inspired activists through his amazing work.