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It's Black Entertainment

Directed by Stan Lathan
2002    80m
Documentary, Music, Musical
6.8
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Survey of musical performers on film from the 20th century, organized into segments: Dancers, Divas, Rock and Soul, Jazz and Swing, Male Singers, and Hip Hop.
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Cast of It's Black Entertainment
  • Vanessa WilliamsSelf - Host
  • Whitney HoustonSelf
  • Ella FitzgeraldSelf (archive footage)
  • Snoop DoggSelf
  • Diana RossSelf (archive footage)
  • Spike LeeSelf
  • Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
  • Little RichardSelf
  • Debbie AllenSelf
  • Carl AndersonSelf
  • Josephine BakerSelf (archive footage)
  • James BrownSelf (archive footage)
  • Tisha CampbellSelf
  • Nat King ColeSelf (archive footage)
  • Sean CombsSelf (archive footage)
  • Dorothy DandridgeSelf (archive footage)
  • Sammy Davis Jr.Self (archive footage)
  • Rah DiggaSelf
  • Suzzanne DouglasSelf
  • Dr. DreSelf
  • Billy EckstineSelf (archive footage)
  • Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)
  • Jamie FoxxSelf
  • Aretha FranklinMrs. Murphy (archive footage)
  • Nelson GeorgeSelf
  • Jasmine GuySelf
  • Jimi HendrixSelf (archive footage)
  • Gregory HinesSelf
  • Billie HolidaySelf (archive footage)
  • Lena HorneSelf (archive footage)
  • Reginald HudlinSelf
  • Ice-TSelf
  • Michael JacksonSelf (archive footage)
  • James 'Jimmy Jam' Harris IIISelf
  • Quincy JonesSelf
  • A.J. JohnsonSelf (archive footage)
  • Eartha KittSelf (archive footage)
  • John LandisSelf
  • Stan LathanSelf
  • Terry LewisSelf
  • LL Cool JSelf (archive footage)
  • Wynton MarsalisSelf
  • Harold NicholasSelf (archive footage)
  • Alan ParkerSelf
  • Otis ReddingSelf (archive footage)
  • Christopher ReidSelf (archive footage)
  • Busta RhymesSelf
  • Smokey RobinsonSelf
  • Russell SimmonsSelf
  • Bessie SmithSelf (archive footage)
  • Tina TurnerSelf (archive footage)
  • Fats WallerSelf (archive footage)
  • Billy Dee WilliamsSelf
  • Donald BogleSelf
  • Kenny BurrellSelf
  • James CrossSelf (archive footage)
  • Suzanne de PasseSelf
  • Berry GordySelf
  • Eddie HartmanSelf (archive footage)
  • 'Crip' HeardSelf (archive footage)
  • Rubberneck HolmesSelf (archive footage)
  • Louis JordanSelf (archive footage)
  • Camille KingMaddam CJ Walker
  • KymeRachel Meadows (archive footage)
  • Velma MiddletonSelf (archive footage)
  • Fayard NicholasSelf
  • The Notorious B.I.G.Self (archive footage)
  • Earl 'Snake Hips' TuckerSelf (archive footage)
  • Sister Rosetta TharpeSelf (archive footage)

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