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| 194 cast members |
| Name | Episodes | Known for |
|---|---|---|
Ellis Haizlip
Self - Host / Self - Co-Host
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32
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Gerry Bledsoe
Self - Announcer / Self - Host / Self - Host - Announcer
|
17
|
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Jerry Butler
Self - Host
|
7
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Patti LaBelle
Self
|
5
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Nona Hendryx
Self
|
5
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Sarah Dash
Self
|
5
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Nikki Giovanni
Self - Host / Self -
|
5
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Novella Nelson
Self
|
4
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King Curtis
Self
|
4
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Muhammad Ali
Self
|
3
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Curtis Mayfield
Self - Host
|
3
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Anna Maria Horsford
Self
|
3
|
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Marion Williams
Self - Singer
|
2
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Loretta Long
Self - Hostess / Self - Host
|
2
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Roberta Flack
Self
|
2
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The Five Stairsteps
Themselves
|
2
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Ossie Davis
Self
|
2
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Ruby Dee
Self
|
2
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Miriam Makeba
Self
|
2
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Sonia Sanchez
Self
|
2
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James Earl Jones
Self
|
2
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Nick Ashford
Self
|
2
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Valerie Simpson
Self
|
2
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Amiri Baraka
Self - Poet
|
2
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Vertamae Grosvenor
Self - Host
|
2
|
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Cecil Bridgewater
Self
|
2
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Billy Harper
Self
|
2
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James Baldwin
Self
|
2
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Max Roach
Self
|
2
|
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Ralph MacDonald
Self
|
2
|
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Loretta Green
Self - Host
|
2
|
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Harold Mabern
Self
|
2
|
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Kenny Barron
Self
|
2
|
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Billy Taylor
Self
|
1
|
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Irwin C. Watson
Self
|
1
|
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Alvin F. Poussaint
Self - Host
|
1
|
|
Barbara Ann Teer
Self
|
1
|
|
Pearl Williams-Jones
Self
|
1
|
|
Barbara Acklin
Self
|
1
|
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Judy Pace
Self
|
1
|
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Dee Dee Warwick
Self
|
1
|
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Shirley Chisholm
Self
|
1
|
|
The Bluebells
Self
|
1
|
|
Mandrill
Self
|
1
|
|
Baby Huey and the Babysitters
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Lord Superior
Self
|
1
|
|
Georgia Jackson
Self
|
1
|
|
Jacob Lawrence
Self
|
1
|
|
Inge Hardison
Self
|
1
|
|
Willie & The Mighty Magnificents
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Brenda Jo Harris
Self
|
1
|
|
Soul Dukes
Themselves
|
1
|
|
The Fred Benjamin Dancers
Themselves
|
1
|
|
B.B. King
Self
|
1
|
|
Melba Moore
Self
|
1
|
|
Donny Hathaway
Self
|
1
|
|
Gale Sayers
Self
|
1
|
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Lonne Elder III
Self
|
1
|
|
Vivian Reed
Self
|
1
|
|
Sam Greenlee
Self
|
1
|
|
Eddie Floyd
Self
|
1
|
|
Little Milton
Self
|
1
|
|
The Delfonics
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Archie Bell & The Drells
Themselves
|
1
|
|
The Manhattans
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Carla Thomas
Self
|
1
|
|
The Moments
Themselves
|
1
|
|
The Last Poets
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Honey Cone
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Hal Jackson
Self - Host
|
1
|
|
Henry Shed
Self
|
1
|
|
Tee Collins
Self
|
1
|
|
Billy Butler
Self (as Billy Butler & Infinity)
|
1
|
|
G.O. Smith
Self - Miss Black America
|
1
|
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Joe Lee Wilson
Self
|
1
|
|
Duke Baldwin
Announcer (voice)
|
1
|
|
The Unifics
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Holly Maxwell
Self
|
1
|
|
Ruby Andrews
Self
|
1
|
|
Arthur Burghardt
Frederick Douglas
|
1
|
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Carmen De Lavallade
Self
|
1
|
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Bill Withers
Self
|
1
|
|
Louis Farrakhan
Self
|
1
|
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Carolyn Franklin
Self
|
1
|
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Buddy Miles
Self
|
1
|
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Ron Carter
Self
|
1
|
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Roy Haynes
Self
|
1
|
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Ronnie Dyson
Self - Singer
|
1
|
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George Faison
Self
|
1
|
|
The Persuasions
Themselves
|
1
|
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Bobby Hebb
Self
|
1
|
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McCoy Tyner
Self (as The McCoy Tyner Quartet)
|
1
|
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Margaret Harris
Self
|
1
|
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Sonny Fortune
Self (as The McCoy Tyner Quartet)
|
1
|
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Reggie Workman
Self
|
1
|
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Mae Jackson
Self
|
1
|
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Orde Coombs
Self - Editor
|
1
|
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Soundra Sharpe
Self
|
1
|
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J.C. White Singers
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Joe Bonner
Self
|
1
|
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Mae Jackson
Self - Poet
|
1
|
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M'Boom
Themselves
|
1
|
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Jackie Earley
Self
|
1
|
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Marilyn Berry
Self
|
1
|
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Sidney Poitier
Self
|
1
|
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Cicely Tyson
Self - Guest
|
1
|
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Harry Belafonte
Self
|
1
|
|
Ron O'Neal
Self
|
1
|
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Al Freeman Jr.
Self
|
1
|
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Stevie Wonder
Self
|
1
|
|
Ray Parker Jr.
Self (as Ray E. Parker)
|
1
|
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Al Green
Self
|
1
|
|
Jesse Jackson
Self (as The Reverend Jesse Jackson)
|
1
|
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Taj Mahal
Self
|
1
|
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Tito Puente
Self
|
1
|
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Eleanor McCoy
Self
|
1
|
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Merry Clayton
Self
|
1
|
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Willie Colón
Self
|
1
|
|
Ray Simpson
Self (as Raymond Simpson)
|
1
|
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Gladys Knight & The Pips
Themselves
|
1
|
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Alice Childress
Self
|
1
|
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Phil Moore
Self
|
1
|
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The Moonglows
Themselves
|
1
|
|
William Hart
Self (as The Delfonics)
|
1
|
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Camille Yarbrough
Self
|
1
|
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Ollie E. Brown
Self
|
1
|
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Mongo Santamaria
Self
|
1
|
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Lee Morgan
Self
|
1
|
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The Dells
Themselves
|
1
|
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Horace Silver
Self
|
1
|
|
1
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Nat Adderley Jr.
Self
|
1
|
|
G. Keith Alexander
Self - Announcer
|
1
|
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Felipe Luciano
Self - Host
|
1
|
|
Bob Cranshaw
Self
|
1
|
|
Jymie Merritt
Self
|
1
|
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Salome Bey
Self
|
1
|
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Bobbi Humphrey
Self
|
1
|
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Andy Bey
Self
|
1
|
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Self
|
1
|
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Peaches
Self
|
1
|
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Brenda Lee Eager
Self
|
1
|
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Harold Vick
Self
|
1
|
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Zulema
Self
|
1
|
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Lucky Thompson
Self
|
1
|
|
The Black Ivory
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Roslyn Woods
Self - Poet
|
1
|
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The New Birth
Themselves
|
1
|
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Stuart Bascombe
Black Ivory
|
1
|
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Judy Dearing
Self
|
1
|
|
Lucky Peterson
Self
|
1
|
|
Major Harris
Self (as The Delfonics)
|
1
|
|
Freddie Waits
Self
|
1
|
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Wilbert Hart
Self (as The Delfonics)
|
1
|
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Carolyn Rodgers
Self - Poet
|
1
|
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Mickey Roker
Self
|
1
|
|
Stanley Nelson
Self (as Dr. Stanley Nelson)
|
1
|
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Shirley Reid
Self
|
1
|
|
The Isaac Douglas Singers
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Mildred Lewis
Self
|
1
|
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Babatu Ojinga
Self
|
1
|
|
Vanessa Howard
Self
|
1
|
|
Jimmy Briscoe & The Little Beavers
Themselves
|
1
|
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Joe Dennis
Self - Announcer
|
1
|
|
Michael Goode
Self
|
1
|
|
Norman Jordan
Self - Poet
|
1
|
|
The Nite-Liters
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Black Heat
Themselves
|
1
|
|
Billy Preston
Self
|
1
|
|
Philip Bailey
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
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Teddy Pendergrass
Self (as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes)
|
1
|
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Maurice White
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
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Harold Melvin
Self (as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes)
|
1
|
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Stokely Carmichael
Self
|
1
|
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Verdine White
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
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Linda Hopkins
Self
|
1
|
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Ralph Johnson
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
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James Mtume
Self
|
1
|
|
Larry Dunn
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
|
Andrew Woolfolk
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
|
Johnny Graham
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
|
Esther Marrow
Self
|
1
|
|
Alonzo Brown Jr.
Self
|
1
|
|
Jessica Cleaves
Self (as Earth Wind & Fire)
|
1
|
|
Philippé Wynne
Self (as The Spinners)
|
1
|
|
Jimmy Castor
Self
|
1
|
|
Henry Fambrough
Self (as The Spinners)
|
1
|
|
Pervis Jackson
Self (as The Spinners)
|
1
|
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Bobbie Smith
Self (as The Spinners)
|
1
|
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Bill Henderson
Self (as The Spinners)
|
1
|
|
Lloyd Parks
Self (as Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes)
|
1
|
|
Sherry Santifer
Self
|
1
|
|
Leslie Demus
Self
|
1
|
|
Ida Lewis
Self
|
1
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