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Gil Noble
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Self (1985)
Muhammad Ali
Self
Amiri Baraka
Self (2000)
Charles Barron
Self (2010)
Harry Belafonte
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Self (1982)
Herb Boyd
H. Rap Brown
Self (1968)
Jim Brown
Calvin O. Butts III
Self (1990)
Stokely Carmichael
Self (1976)
Sonny Carson
Self (1997)
Fidel Castro
Self (1968) (archiveFootage)
Ben Chavis
Self (1988)
Chuck D
Self (1989)
John Henrik Clarke
Eldridge Cleaver
Self (1974)
John Conyers
Bill Cosby
Dorothy Cotton
Ron Daniels
Herbert Daughtry
Sammy Davis Jr.
Ossie Davis
Self (2003)
Joy Degruy
Self (2004)
Billy Eckstine
Louis Farrakhan
Aretha Franklin
Kenny Gamble
Self (1992)
Erroll Garner
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Danny Glover
Self (1994)
Alex Haley
Self (1979)
Fannie Lou Hamer
Self (1971)
Isaac Hayes
Robert Hooks
Lena Horne
Bobbi Humphrey
Jesse Jackson
Milt Jackson
Leonard Jeffries
Hank Jones
Self (1991)
Coretta Scott King
Martin Luther King
KRS-One
Sugar Ray Leonard
Abbey Lincoln
Delroy Lindo
Alton Maddox
Malcolm X
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Michael Manley
Self (1977)
Bob Marley
Wynton Marsalis
Bill McCreary
Jackie McLean
Carmen McRae
Robert Mugabe
Self (1978)
Khalid Muhammad
Self (1998)
C. Herbert Oliver
Self (2011)
Gordon Parks
Les Payne
Oscar Peterson
Sidney Poitier
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Charles Rangel
Gloria Richardson
Max Roach
Randall Robinson
Sonny Rollins
Self (2007)
Nipsey Russell
Gil Scott-Heron
Betty Shabazz
Assata Shakur
Self (1987)
Mutulu Shakur
Self (1986)
Al Sharpton
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Chuck Stone
Melba Tolliver
Ivan Van Sertima
Sarah Vaughan
Self (1969)
C.T. Vivian
Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Wyatt Tee Walker
Randy Weston
Nancy Wilson
Reggie Workman
Andrew Young