Directed by Brett Alexander   Cast Dan Rather ... Self - Narrator / Interviewer Maya Angelou ... Self - Friend Ray Barron ... Self - Nightclub Promoter Chuck D ... Self - Public Enemy Ella Collins ... Self - Half-Sister Rod Collins ... Self - Nephew James Cone ... Self - Professor James Cotton ... Self - Classmate David Dubois ... Self - Son of W.E.B. DuBois James Farmer ... Self - Civil Rights Leader Peter Goldman ... Self - Author Pidie Lucus Green ... Self - Waitress Dick Gregory ... Self - Friend Lionel Hampton ... Self - Friend Brother James ... Self - Public Enemy Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis ... Self - Friend Clarence B. Jones ... Self - Legal Advisor to Martin Luther King (as Clarence Jones) Quincy Jones ... Self - Friend Yvonne Jones ... Self - Sister Charles Kenyatta ... Self - Aide to Malcolm X Wallace D. Muhammad ... Self - Son of Elijah Muhammad (as W. Deen Muhammad) Gilson Pearsall ... Self - Teacher Gene Roberts ... Self - Bodyguard and Undercover Policeman Betty Shabazz ... Self - Wife Yusuf Shah ... Self - Chief Aide and Author Wesley Snipes ... Self - Actor Percy Sutton ... Self - Legal Advisor Mario Van Peebles ... Self - Actor Mike Wallace ... Self - NYC TV Journalist Malcolm-Jamal Warner ... Self - Actor Keenen Ivory Wayans ... Self Andrew Young ... Self - Aide to Martin Luther King Uncredited Cast Walter Cronkite ... Self - Announces Death of JFK (archive footage) Fred Davis ... Self - 'Front Page Challenge', with Malcolm X (archive footage) Ossie Davis ... Self - Delivers Eulogy (archive footage) Marcus Garvey ... Self (in car during parade) (archive footage) J. Edgar Hoover ... Self - Discusses FBI Relations with Colored Folk (archive footage) Jacqueline Kennedy ... Self - JFK's Funeral (archive footage) John F. Kennedy ... Self - Dallas (archive footage) Robert F. Kennedy ... Self - JFK's Funeral (archive footage) Ted Kennedy ... Self - JFK's Funeral (archive footage) Martin Luther King ... Self - March on Washington (archive footage) Malcolm X ... Self - Speeches, Lies in State (archive footage) Elijah Muhammad ... Self (archive footage)

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