Roger Guenveur Smith as Huey P. Newton

Marlon Brando as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

H. Rap Brown as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jim Brown as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Angela Davis as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eldridge Cleaver as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kathleen Cleaver as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Huey P. Long as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Malcolm X as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Pryor as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bobby Seale as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Bessie Smith as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Kwame Ture as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Orson Welles as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)