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