Don Cheadle
Narrator (voice)
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Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr.
self - television and radio talk-show host (archival footage)
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Robert Hooks
self - actor and producer
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Chuck Brown
self - musician and former cell mate of Petey Greene
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Marion Barry
self - former mayor of Washington, DC
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Howard Stern
self
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Ralph Greene Sr.
self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)
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Maggie Floyd
self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)
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Dewey Hughes
self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager
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Roach Brown
self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary
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Frank Smith, Jr.
self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.
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Clarence Greene
self - Petey Greene's brother
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Ernie Barnes
self - Artiste
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Virginia Ali
self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl
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Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis
self - President, Southeastern University
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Sandra Butler
self - retired tv executive
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Martin Luther King Jr.
self - archival footage
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Sugar Ray Leonard
self - boxing legend
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James Brown
self - sportscaster
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Alfred Liggins, III
self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One
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Petra Greene
self - daughter of Petey Greene (archival footage)
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Ralph Waldo Greene, III
self - Petey Greene's son (archive footage)
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Sister Claudette Muhammad
self - Chief of Protocol, Nation of Islam
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Madeline Petty
self - Deputy Director, DC Dept of Housing
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Donna Brazile
self - Mobilization Chairman, March on Washington
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Dana Jones
self - CEO, United Planning Organization
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Midge Costanza
self - Special Assistant to President Carter
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