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77 cast members |
Name | Episodes | Known for |
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Self - host and narrator / Self - Host and Narrator
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6
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Vincent Brown
Self - historian / Self - Historian / Self - historian, Harvard University
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4
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Bernard E. Powers Jr.
Self - historian / Self - Historian
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3
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Peniel E. Joseph
Self - historian
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3
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David Levering Lewis
Self - historian
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2
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Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Self - lawyer and civil rights activist
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2
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Thavolia Glymph
Self - Historian / Self - historian
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2
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Kathleen Cleaver
Self - professor of law and former member of Black Panther Party
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1
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James H. Sweet
Self - historian
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1
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Damon Keith
Self - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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1
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Isabel Wilkerson
Self - author
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1
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Christopher L. Brown
Self - historian
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1
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John Stauffer
Self - historian
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1
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Richard Newman
Self - Historian
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1
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Annette Gordon-Reed
Self - historian
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1
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Maulana Karenga
Self - historian and co-founder of US Organization
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1
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Mark Kelly Tyler
Self - Pastor, African Methodist Episcopal Church
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1
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Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander
Self - historian
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1
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Christopher S. Parker
Self - author of 'Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South'
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1
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Tricia Rose
Self - historian
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1
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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Self - historian, Harvard University
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1
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Abu Bangura
Self - village head of Port Loko, Sierra Leone
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1
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Douglas Egerton
Self - Historian
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1
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Michael Bertrand
Self - historian
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1
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Questlove
Self
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1
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Hari Jones
Self - assistant director and curator, African American Civil War Freedom Foundation and Museum
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1
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David Pilgrim
Self - founder and curator, Jim Crow Museum
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1
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Isatu Smith
Self - deputy coordinator, Bunce Island Project, Sierra Leone
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1
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Steven Deyle
Self - Historian
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1
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Ford Nelson
Self - radio host, WDIA
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1
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Martin Duberman
Self - historian
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1
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William Julius Wilson
Self - sociologist
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1
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Daina Ramey Berry
Self - Historian
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1
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Sowande Mustakeem
Self - historian
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1
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Brent Hayes Edwards
Self - historian
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1
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Kendra Field
Self - historian
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1
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Donald Bogle
Self - author
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1
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Kurt L. Schmoke
Self - former mayor of Baltimore and president of the University of Baltimore
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1
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Edward Ball
Self
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1
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Heather A. Williams
Self - Historian
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1
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Ruby Bridges
Self
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1
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Robin D.G. Kelley
Self - historian
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1
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1
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Darryl R. Johnson
Self - mayor of Mound Bayou, Mississippi
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1
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Wess Young
Self - Tulsa race riot survivor
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1
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Tedra Williams
Self - Wess Young's granddaughter
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1
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Darrell S. White
Self - Director, Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture
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1
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Antawn Polite
Self - Thomalind Polite's husband
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1
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David C. Forbes Sr.
Self - civil rights activist
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1
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1
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Angela Glover Blackwell
Self - founder and president of PolicyLink
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1
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Charles Ogletree
Self - civil rights lawyer
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1
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Vanessa Holden
Self - Historian
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1
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Michelle Alexander
Self - associate professor of law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
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1
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1
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Michael Twitty
Self - food historian
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1
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Hannibal Johnson
Self - author
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1
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David W. Blight
Self - Historian
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1
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John Lewis
Self
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1
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Thomas C. Holt
Self - Historian
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1
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Patricia A. Sullivan
Self - historian
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1
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Jane Landers
Self - historian
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1
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Terrence Stevens
Self - community activist, In Arms Reach Inc.
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1
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Chuck D
Self
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1
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Kate Clifford Larson
Self - Historian
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1
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Jelani Cobb
Self - historian
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1
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Grace Lee Boggs
Self - author
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1
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Dan Rather
Self - former news anchor, CBS Evening News
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1
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Rochelle Bush
Self - Historian
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1
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Aram Goudsouzian
Self - historian
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1
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Paul Sylvester Jr.
Self - resident of New Orleans
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1
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Nikki Taylor
Self - Historian
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1
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Alvin F. Poussaint
Self - civil rights activist, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
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1
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Roland Doucette Sr.
Self - resident of New Orleans
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1
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W. Kamau Bell
Self
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1
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Colin Powell
Self
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1
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Paula Giddings
Self - historian
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1
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