Characters played by Sidney Poitier
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Characters played by Michael Jackson
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Characters played by Blair Underwood
Narration
Characters played by Anna Maria Horsford
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Characters played by Diahann Carroll
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Characters played by Obba Babatundé
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Characters played by Arsenio Hall
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Characters played by Harry Belafonte
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Characters played by Roxie Roker
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Characters played by Patti LaBelle
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Characters played by Stevie Wonder
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Characters played by Questlove
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Characters played by Muhammad Ali
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Characters played by Stan Lathan
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Characters played by Novella Nelson
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Characters played by Gladys Knight
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Characters played by Melba Moore
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Characters played by Maya Angelou
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Characters played by B.B. King
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Characters played by Carmen De Lavallade
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Characters played by Bill Withers
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Characters played by Al Green
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Characters played by Earth Wind & Fire
Themselves
Characters played by Martin Luther King
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Characters played by Malcolm X
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Characters played by James Baldwin
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Characters played by Angela Davis
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Characters played by Loretta Long
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Characters played by Nona Hendryx
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Characters played by Alvin Ailey
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Characters played by Stokely Carmichael
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Characters played by Kathleen Cleaver
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Characters played by Nikki Giovanni
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Characters played by Hugh Masekela
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Characters played by Greg Tate
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Characters played by Amiri Baraka
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Characters played by Donny Hathaway
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Characters played by Sonia Sanchez
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Characters played by George Faison
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Characters played by Judith Jamison
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Characters played by Robert J. Thompson
Self - Professor and TV Historian Syracuse University
Characters played by Ashford & Simpson
Themselves
Characters played by Ellis Haizlip
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Characters played by Thomas Allen Harris
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Characters played by Stuart Bascombe
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Characters played by Felipe Luciano
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Characters played by Alvin F. Poussaint
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Characters played by Sarah Dash
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Characters played by Billy Taylor
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Characters played by Russell Patterson
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Characters played by The Last Poets
Themselves
Characters played by Louis J. Massiah
Self
Characters played by Sarah Lewis
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Characters played by Sade Lythcott
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Characters played by Leroy Burgess
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Characters played by Chester Higgins Jr.
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Characters played by Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Characters played by Kevin Powell
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Characters played by Sylvia Waters
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Characters played by Christopher Lukas
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