Why Is We Americans? (2022)
The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics.
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Lauryn Hill
as Self
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
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
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)
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
Cory Booker
as Self
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...
Director
Ayana Stafford-Morris