Kathleen Cleaver

Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Julian Bond

Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]

Jamal Joseph

Self - Black Panther Party

Blair Anderson

Self - Black Panther Party

Omar Barbour

Self - Black Panther Party

Elaine Brown

Self - Black Panther Party

Scot Brown

Self - Historian

William Calhoun

Self - Black Panther Party

Clayborne Carson

Self - Historian

Eldridge Cleaver

Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Dennis Cunningham

Self - Attorney

Emory Douglas

Self - Black Panther Party

Flores Forbes

Self - Black Panther Party

Sherwin Forte

Self - Black Panther Party

Ronald Freeman

Self - Black Panther Party

Roland Freeman

Self - Black Panther Party

Beverly Gage

Self - Historian

Ray Gaul

Self - Oakland Police Department

Jeff Haas

Self - Attorney

Fred Hampton

Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

Edward Hanrahan

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

Elbert Howard

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

Ericka Huggins

Self - Black Panther Party

Phyllis Jackson

Self - Black Panther Party

Deborah Johnson

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

Mike Klonsky

Self - Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]

Mark Kurlansky

Self - Writer

Bob Lee

Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

David Lemieux

Self - Black Panther Party

Tarika Lewis

Self - Black Panther Party

Felipe Luciano

Self - Young Lords

Ron McCarthy

Self - Los Angeles Police Department