2018: "Courageous Conversations" – Glenn Singleton

2017: "Tech Talk: Unlocking the Color Code," featuring a panel of experts who discussed breaking barriers in the technology industry

2016: "Martin & Music," music and the spoken word of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with Charles Holt and Gerald Rivers

2015: "Tonight I Celebrate My Love,"  an intimate evening with Roberta Flack

2014: “Rubbing Off” Allison Briscoe-Smith, Ph.D.

2013: An Evening with Anthony Robles, a three-time all-American wrestler born with only one leg

2012: "Instilling Hope in Our Children" featuring Sarah O'Neal Rush, great-granddaughter of Booker T. Washington

2011: "A Tale of Acceptance" featuring Cheryl Kilodavis, author of My Princess Boy, and Monte Poole, sports reporter for the Oakland Tribune2010: "Diversity in the 21st Century" with Dr. Harry Edwards

2009: Crystal Hayling, President/CEO of Blue Shield of California Foundation

2007: "Resiliency of the Human Spirit" – Mark Mathabane

2006:  "Celebrating the Arts" – Brian Copeland

2005: "Trailblazers" – A Panel of Extraordinary Pioneers

• Thelton E. Henderson, United States District Judge
• Lourdes Portillo, a Chicano writer, director, and producer
• General Bernard P. Randolph, Senior Consultant for Space Systems Engineering
• Aqeela Sherrils, Executive Director of Community Self-Determination Institute

2004: "50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education" - Cheryl Brown Henderson

2003: The Little Rock Nine, featuring Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals and Dr. Terrance Roberts