Plot
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
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Cast
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
