Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Samuel L. Jackson
as Narrator (voice)
James Baldwin
as Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
as Self (archive footage)
Medgar Evers
as Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
Harry Belafonte
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Weiss
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett
as Self (archive footage)
H. Rap Brown
as Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)
Bob Dylan
as Self (archive footage)
Leander Perez
as Self - White Citizens Council (archive footage)
