Actors

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Actor

Self (archive footage)

John Maynard Keynes

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Mehrsa Baradaran

Actor

Self - Author

Cory Booker

Actor

Self - U.S. Senator

Thomas Shapiro

Writing

Self - Sociologist

Beth Jacobson

Actor

Self - Foreclosure Specialist

James Baldwin

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Edward A. Bouchet

Actor

Self - First Black Ph.D Recipient (archive footage)

Shirley Chisholm

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Writing

Self (archive footage)

Stephen Colbert

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Bessie Coleman

Actor

Self - First Black Licensed Pilot (archive footage)

Alan Greenspan

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Jesse Jackson

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Robert L. Johnson

Actor

Self - First Black Billionaire (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Dennis Kucinich

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Abraham Lincoln

Actor

Self (archive footage)

Alain Leroy Locke

Actor

Self - First Black Rhodes Scholar (archive footage)