Cornel West as Self (as Dr. Cornel West)

James Brown as Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali as Self (archive footage)

Michael Ambrosino as Self

Tom Atkins as Self

Charles Bobbitt as Self (as Charles Bobbit)

Bobby Byrd as Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage)

Coretta Scott King as Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson as Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage)

Harry Reasoner as Self (archive footage)

Al Sharpton as Self

Hubert H. Humphrey as Self (archive footage)

Dennis Haysbert as Self - Narrator (voice)

Robert Hall as Self (as Dr. Robert Hall)