Kathleen Cleaver as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Julian Bond as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]

Jamal Joseph as Self - Black Panther Party

Blair Anderson as Self - Black Panther Party

Omar Barbour as Self - Black Panther Party

Elaine Brown as Self - Black Panther Party

Scot Brown as Self - Historian

William Calhoun as Self - Black Panther Party

Clayborne Carson as Self - Historian

Eldridge Cleaver as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Dennis Cunningham as Self - Attorney

Emory Douglas as Self - Black Panther Party

Flores Forbes as Self - Black Panther Party

Sherwin Forte as Self - Black Panther Party

Ronald Freeman as Self - Black Panther Party

Roland Freeman as Self - Black Panther Party

Beverly Gage as Self - Historian

Ray Gaul as Self - Oakland Police Department

Jeff Haas as Self - Attorney

Fred Hampton as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Edward Hanrahan as Self - State's Attorney (archive footage) (as Edward V. Hanrahan)

Elbert Howard as Self - Black Panther Party (as Elbert 'Big Man' Howard)

Ericka Huggins as Self - Black Panther Party

Phyllis Jackson as Self - Black Panther Party

Deborah Johnson as Self - Black Panther Party (as Akua Njeri [Deborah Johnson])

Mike Klonsky as Self - Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]

Mark Kurlansky as Self - Writer

Bob Lee as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

David Lemieux as Self - Black Panther Party

Tarika Lewis as Self - Black Panther Party

Felipe Luciano as Self - Young Lords

Ron McCarthy as Self - Los Angeles Police Department