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Vanessa Williams

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Whitney Houston

Self (archive footage)

Josephine Baker

Self (archive footage)

James Brown

Self

Tisha Campbell

Self (archive footage)

Nat King Cole

Self (archive footage)

Sean Combs

Self (archive footage)

Dorothy Dandridge

Self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.

Self

Rah Digga

Self

Suzzanne Douglas

Self

Dr. Dre

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Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

Billy Eckstine

Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Self

Jamie Foxx

Mrs. Murphy (archive footage)

Aretha Franklin

Self

Nelson George

Self

Jasmine Guy

Self (archive footage)

Jimi Hendrix

Self

Gregory Hines

Self (archive footage)

Billie Holiday

Self (archive footage)

Lena Horne

Self

Snoop Dogg

Self

Reginald Hudlin

Self

Ice-T

Self (archive footage)

Michael Jackson

Self

James 'Jimmy Jam' Harris III

Self

Quincy Jones

Self (archive footage)

A.J. Johnson

Self (archive footage)

Eartha Kitt

Self

John Landis

Self

Stan Lathan

Self

Terry Lewis

Self (archive footage)

Diana Ross

Self (archive footage)

LL Cool J

Self

Wynton Marsalis

Self (archive footage)

Harold Nicholas

Self

Alan Parker

Self (archive footage)

Otis Redding

Self (archive footage)

Christopher Reid

Self

Busta Rhymes

Self

Smokey Robinson

Self

Russell Simmons

Self (archive footage)

Bessie Smith

Self

Spike Lee

Self (archive footage)

Tina Turner

Self (archive footage)

Fats Waller

Self

Billy Dee Williams

Self

Donald Bogle

Self

Kenny Burrell

Self (archive footage)

James Cross

Self

Suzanne de Passe

Self

Berry Gordy

Self (archive footage)

Eddie Hartman

Self (archive footage)

'Crip' Heard

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Rubberneck Holmes

Self (archive footage)

Louis Jordan

Maddam CJ Walker

Camille King

Rachel Meadows (archive footage)

Kyme

Self (archive footage)

Velma Middleton

Self

Fayard Nicholas

Self (archive footage)

The Notorious B.I.G.

Self (archive footage)

Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker

Self (archive footage)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Self

Little Richard

Self

Debbie Allen

Self

Carl Anderson

Director

Stan Lathan

Writer

John Davies