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

Loren Mendell