Cast

Don Cheadle

Narrator (voice)



Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr.

self - television and radio talk-show host (archival footage)



Robert Hooks

self - actor and producer



Chuck Brown

self - musician and former cell mate of Petey Greene



Marion Barry

self - former mayor of Washington, DC



Howard Stern

self



Ralph Greene Sr.

self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)



Maggie Floyd

self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)



Dewey Hughes

self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager



Roach Brown

self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary



Frank Smith, Jr.

self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.



Clarence Greene

self - Petey Greene's brother



Ernie Barnes

self - Artiste



Virginia Ali

self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl



Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis

self - President, Southeastern University



Sandra Butler

self - retired tv executive



Martin Luther King Jr.

self - archival footage



Sugar Ray Leonard

self - boxing legend



James Brown

self - sportscaster



Alfred Liggins, III

self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One



Petra Greene

self - daughter of Petey Greene (archival footage)



Ralph Waldo Greene, III

self - Petey Greene's son (archive footage)



Sister Claudette Muhammad

self - Chief of Protocol, Nation of Islam



Madeline Petty

self - Deputy Director, DC Dept of Housing



Donna Brazile

self - Mobilization Chairman, March on Washington



Dana Jones

self - CEO, United Planning Organization



Midge Costanza

self - Special Assistant to President Carter