It's Black Entertainment

Vanessa Williams as Self - Host Whitney Houston as Self Ella Fitzgerald as Self (archive footage) Snoop Dogg as Self Diana Ross as Self (archive footage) Spike Lee as Self Louis Armstrong as Self (archive footage) Little Richard as Self Debbie Allen as Self Carl Anderson as Self Josephine Baker as Self (archive footage) James Brown as Self (archive footage) Tisha Campbell as Self Nat King Cole as Self (archive footage) Sean Combs as Self (archive footage) Dorothy Dandridge as Self (archive footage) Sammy Davis Jr. as Self (archive footage) Rah Digga as Self Suzzanne Douglas as Self Dr. Dre as Self Billy Eckstine as Self (archive footage) Duke Ellington as Self (archive footage) Jamie Foxx as Self Aretha Franklin as Mrs. Murphy (archive footage) Nelson George as Self Jasmine Guy as Self Jimi Hendrix as Self (archive footage) Gregory Hines as Self Billie Holiday as Self (archive footage) Lena Horne as Self (archive footage) Reginald Hudlin as Self Ice-T as Self Michael Jackson as Self (archive footage) Quincy Jones as Self A.J. Johnson as Self (archive footage) Eartha Kitt as Self (archive footage) John Landis as Self Stan Lathan as Self LL Cool J as Self (archive footage) Wynton Marsalis as Self Harold Nicholas as Self (archive footage) Alan Parker as Self Otis Redding as Self (archive footage) Christopher Reid as Self (archive footage) Busta Rhymes as Self Smokey Robinson as Self Russell Simmons as Self Bessie Smith as Self (archive footage) Tina Turner as Self (archive footage) Fats Waller as Self (archive footage) Billy Dee Williams as Self Donald Bogle as Self Berry Gordy as Self Rubberneck Holmes as Self (archive footage) Kyme as Rachel Meadows (archive footage) Fayard Nicholas as Self The Notorious B.I.G. as Self (archive footage) Sister Rosetta Tharpe as Self (archive footage)

Stan Lathan Director