科里·布克

Cory Booker

饰：自己

安吉拉·戴维斯

Angela Davis

饰：自己

David Dinkins

饰：自己

亨利·路易斯·盖茨

Henry Louis Gates

饰：自己

纽特·金里奇

Newt Gingrich

饰：自己

梅丽娜·阿布杜拉

Melina Abdullah

饰：自己

Gina Clayton

Gina Clayton

饰：Self - Interviewee

Baz Dreisinger

饰：Self - Educator and Author, Incarceration Nations

David Keene

饰：Self - Chairman 1984 - 2011, American Conservative Union

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

饰：Self - Professor of History, Race and Public Policy, Harvard University,(as Khalil G. Muhammad)

Grover Norquist

Grover Norquist

饰：Self - Board Member, Americans for Tax Reform

Liza Jessie Peterson

Liza Jessie Peterson

饰：Self - Incarceration Activist and Educator

Kyung-Ji Rhee

饰：Self - Center for Nu Leadership on Urban Solutions,(as Kyung-Ji Kate Rhee)

汤姆·布罗考

Tom Brokaw

饰：Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw,(archive footage)

乔治·布什

George Bush

饰：Self - 41st President of the United States,(archive footage)

吉米·卡特

Jimmy Carter

饰：Self - 39th President of the United States,(archive footage)

比尔·克林顿

Bill Clinton

饰：Self - 42nd President of the United States,(archive footage)

史蒂芬·寇贝尔

Stephen Colbert

饰：Self - Host, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,(archive footage)

John Ehrlichman

饰：Self - Chief Domestic Advisor to Richard Nixon,(archive footage)

Fred Hampton

饰：Self - Chairman, Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party,(archive footage)

Jelani Cobb

饰：Himself - Interviewee

彼得·詹宁斯

Peter Jennings

饰：Self - Host, ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings,(archive footage)

Sharanda Jones

饰：Self - Received Mandatory Minimum Sentence of Life in Prison on First Offense,(archive footage)

Polly Hannah Klaas

饰：Self - Murder Victim,(archive footage)

雷切尔·玛多

Rachel Maddow

饰：Self - Host, The Rachel Maddow Show,(archive footage)

理查德·米尔豪斯·尼克松

Richard Milhous Nixon

饰：Self - 37th President of the United States,(archive footage)

约翰·奥利佛

John William Oliver

饰：Self - Host, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,(archive footage)

丹·拉勒

Dan Rather

饰：Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,(archive footage)

罗纳德·威尔逊·里根

Ronald Wilson Reagan

饰：Self - 40th President of the United States,(archive footage)

Assata Shakur

饰：Self - Member of Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army,(archive footage)

唐纳德·特朗普

Donald Trump

饰：Self - New York City Real Estate Businessman,(archive footage)

Paul Weyrich

饰：Self - Co-Founder, ALEC,(archive footage)

George Zimmerman

饰：Self,(archive footage)

William Jelani Cobb

饰：Self - Professor of African-American Studies, University of Connecticut

Marc Mauer

饰：Self - Executive Director, Sentencing Project

Charles Rangel

Charles Rangel

饰：Self - Congressman (D), New York 13th District,(as Charles B. Rangel)

Rashad Robinson

Rashad Robinson

饰：Self - Color for Change

布莱恩·史蒂文森

Bryan Stevenson

饰：Self - Attorney and Author,Founder, Equal Justice Initiative

Lee Atwater

饰：Self - Campaign Strategist to Ronald Reagan,(archive footage)

Kalief Browder

饰：Self - Inmate Held Without Trial, 2010 - 2013,(archive footage)

Roy Bryant

饰：Self - Acquitted of Lynching Emmett Till,(archive footage)

乔治·W· 布什

George W. Bush

饰：Self - 43rd President of the United States,(archive footage)

希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿

Hillary Rodham Clinton

饰：Self - 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidate,(archive footage)

沃尔特

Walter Cronkite

饰：Self - Host, CBS Evening News,(archive footage)

鲍勃·多尔

Bob Dole

饰：Self - Former U.S. Senator (R-KS),(archive footage)

Michael Dukakis

饰：Self - 1988 Democratic Presidential Candidate,(archive footage)

杰拉尔德·福特

Gerald Ford

饰：Self - 38th President of the United States,(archive footage)

Thom Hartmann

饰：Self - Progressive Political Commentator,(archive footage)

林登·贝恩斯·约翰逊

Lyndon Johnson

饰：Self - 36th President of the United States,(archive footage)

马丁·路德·金

Martin Luther King

饰：Self - Civil Rights Leader,(archive footage)

Edward I. Koch

饰：Self - 105th Mayor of New York City,(archive footage)

马尔科姆·X

Malcolm X

饰：Self - Civil Rights Leader,(archive footage)

Mamie Till

饰：Self - Mother of Emmett Till,(archive footage)

巴拉克·奥巴马

Barack Obama

饰：Self - 44th President of the United States,(archive footage)

Rick Perry

饰：Self - Governor of Texas 2000 - 2015 (R),(archive footage)

南希·里根

Nancy Davis

饰：Self - Former First Lady,(archive footage)

哈里·里因纳

Harry Reasoner

饰：Self - Journalist, 60 Minutes,(archive footage)

伯尼·桑德斯

Bernie Sanders

饰：Self - U.S. Senator (I-VT),(archive footage)

Emmett Till

饰：Self - Victim of Lynching,(archive footage)

拉里·威尔默

Larry Wilmore

饰：Self - Host, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore,(archive footage)