Director
Stan Lathan
DIRECTOR
Ivan Cury
Stars (in credits order)
Ellis Haizlip
Self - Host
Gerry Bledsoe
Self - Announcer
Jerry Butler
Patti LaBelle
Self
Nona Hendryx
Sarah Dash
Nikki Giovanni
Novella Nelson
King Curtis
Muhammad Ali
Curtis Mayfield
Anna Maria Horsford
Marion Williams
Self - Singer
Loretta Long
Roberta Flack
The Five Stairsteps
Themselves
Ossie Davis
Ruby Dee
Sonia Sanchez
James Earl Jones
Nick Ashford
Valerie Simpson
Vertamae Grosvenor
Cecil Bridgewater
Billy Harper
James Baldwin
Max Roach
Loretta Green
Ralph MacDonald
Harold Mabern
Kenny Barron
Alvin F. Poussaint
Barbara Ann Teer
Barbara Acklin
Billy Taylor
Irwin C. Watson
Pearl Williams-Jones
Judy Pace
Shirley Chisholm
Dee Dee Warwick
The Bluebells
Mandrill
Baby Huey and the Babysitters
Inge Hardison
Soul Dukes
Jacob Lawrence
Willie & The Mighty Magnificents
Georgia Jackson
Brenda Jo Harris
Lord Superior
The Fred Benjamin Dancers
Melba Moore
B.B. King
Donny Hathaway
Lonne Elder III
Gale Sayers
Sam Greenlee
Vivian Reed
The Delfonics
Eddie Floyd
The Last Poets
The Unifics
Henry Shed
Carla Thomas
Honey Cone
Little Milton
Archie Bell & The Drells
The Moments
Billy Butler
Self (as Billy Butler & Infinity)
Ruby Andrews
Hal Jackson
Duke Baldwin
Announcer
Joe Lee Wilson
The Manhattans
Tee Collins
Holly Maxwell
Arthur Burghardt
Frederick Douglas
Bill Withers
Carmen De Lavallade
Louis Farrakhan
Carolyn Franklin
Buddy Miles
Ron Carter
Roy Haynes
Bobby Hebb
The Persuasions
Reggie Workman
McCoy Tyner
Soundra Sharpe
Sonny Fortune
Margaret Harris
M'Boom
J.C. White Singers
Mae Jackson
Jackie Earley
Marilyn Berry
Joe Bonner
Sidney Poitier
Cicely Tyson
Self - Guest
Harry Belafonte
Ron O'Neal
Stevie Wonder
Al Green
Al Freeman Jr.
Ray Parker Jr.
Tito Puente
Jesse Jackson
Eleanor McCoy
Taj Mahal
Merry Clayton
Amiri Baraka
Willie Colón
Ray Simpson
Gladys Knight & The Pips
Phil Moore
Felipe Luciano
Nat Adderley Jr.
Alice Childress
Camille Yarbrough
Lee Morgan
The Moonglows
Ollie E. Brown
Mongo Santamaria
William Hart
Major Harris
The Black Ivory
Horace Silver
Bob Cranshaw
Norman Jordan
Self - Poet
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
G. Keith Alexander
The New Birth
David 'Fathead' Newman Jr.
The Dells
Peaches
Bobbi Humphrey
Brenda Lee Eager
Lucky Thompson
Andy Bey
Lucky Peterson
Jymie Merritt
Black Heat
Wilbert Hart
Harold Vick
Judy Dearing
Carolyn Rodgers
The Isaac Douglas Singers
Vanessa Howard
Babatu Ojinga
Mickey Roker
Joe Dennis
Self -Announcer
Freddie Waits
The Nite-Liters
Salome Bey
Stuart Bascombe
Black Ivory
Jimmy Briscoe & The Little Beavers
Mildred Lewis
Zulema
Stanley Nelson
Roslyn Woods
Shirley Reid
Michael Goode
Billy Preston
Maurice White
Philip Bailey
Teddy Pendergrass
Harold Melvin
Verdine White
Linda Hopkins
Stokely Carmichael
Ralph Johnson
Alonzo Brown Jr.
James Mtume
Esther Marrow
Philippé Wynne
Johnny Graham
Henry Fambrough
Jessica Cleaves
Larry Dunn
Bill Henderson
Andrew Woolfolk
Jimmy Castor
Bobbie Smith
Pervis Jackson
Lloyd Parks
Ida Lewis
Leslie Demus
Sherry Santifer