Why Is We Americans? (2022)

Lauryn Hill as Self Age 50 · South Orange, New Jersey, USA Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of her time and considered a pioneer o...

Maya Angelou as Self Died 2014 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movi...

Nina Simone as Self Died 2003 · Tryon, North Carolina, USA Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist who worked in a broad range of musical st...

Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage) Died 1997 · Newark, New Jersey, USA Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soo...

Roxanne Shanté as Self Age 56 · Queens, New York, United States

Cory Booker as Self Age 56 · Washington, D.C., USA Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician, attorney, and author who has served as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2013. A member of the Democratic Part...