“Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies, They change the course of history, Everyday people like you and me…” – RATM
Depicted in the video:
- Chief Sitting Bull: leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
- Thomas Paine: Founding Father considered a radical at the time.
- Martin Luther King: Civil Rights activist, assassinated in 1968 .
- Malcolm X: Civil Rights activist, assassinated in 1965.
- Muhammad Ali: Champion boxer.
- Paul Robeson: Union leader/activist, singer, athlete.
- Richard Pryor: Comedian/writer, Regarded as one of the greatest ever.
- Gil Scott-Heron: Spoken word poet and musician.
- The Last Poets: group of poets and musicians with sympathies to the civil rights movement.
- James Brown: gospel and rhythm and blues artist
- Curtis Mayfield: soul, funk and rhythm and blues artist
- Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: funk band
- Sly and the Family Stone: funk band
- George Clinton: funk artist.
- Parliament Funkadelic: Funk music collective
- DJ Kool Herc: Hip-hop pioneer.
- Grandmaster Flash: Hip-hop artist, DJ.
- Afrika Bambaataa: DJ, Bronx community leader.
- Kurtis Blow: hip-hop artist, DJ.
- Nat Turner: leader of the Southampton county slave rebellion.
- Huey Newton: co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal: former Black Panther Party activist
- Leonard Peltier: member of the American Indian Movement.
- Ernesto “Che” Guevara: guerrilla leader.
- Stokeley Carmichael: leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Marcus Garvey: founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
- Angela Davis: activist and Black Panther.
- Rigoberta Menchu: human rights activist and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
- Cesar Chavez: co-founder of the United Farm Workers.
- Susan B. Anthony: co-founder of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association.
- Rosa Parks: civil rights activist.
- Whodini: hip-hop group
- Run-D.M.C.: hip-hop trio
- LL Cool J: hip-hop artist
- KDAY: hip-hop radio station
- Ice-T: rapper
- Roxanne Shante: hip-hop artist
- UTFO: rap group
- Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Peter Norman: 1968 Summer Olympics athletes who were the main subjects of the infamous 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
- Boogie Down Productions: hip-hop group
- Beastie Boys: hip-hop group
- Salt-n-Pepa: rhythm and blues and hip-hop group
- Eric B. & Rakim: hip-hop duo
- MC Lyte: hip-hop artist
- Slick Rick: rapper
- Big Daddy Kane: rapper
- EPMD: hip-hop duo
- Public Enemy: hip-hop group
- De La Soul: hip-hop trio
- Queen Latifah: rapper
- Tone Lōc: hip-hop artist
- N.W.A: gangsta rap group