"A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965."
Cicely Tyson
as Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood
as Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
as Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones
as Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery
as Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn
as Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer
as J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
as Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan
as Lada
Harold Pruett
as John Riggs
Adam Arkin
as Art Berman
Robert Hooks
as Reverend Brooks
Michael Greene
as Mr. Canfield
Charlie Korsmo
as Jason (age 12)
T.E. Russell
as Dominique Freeman
Stephanie Covington
as Florence Blake
Janice McElroy
as Rachel Freeman
Christopher M. Brown
as Reggie Freeman
Emily Yancy
as Guidance Counselor
Roger Grato III
as Jason (age 6)
Marilyn Coleman
as Cora
Bebe Drake
as Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Mark Rolston
as Officer Zekanis
Randy Kirby
as Lt. Keyes
Pepper Sweeney
as Spook Hunter
Klexius Kolby
Makeup Artist
Kevin Hooks
Director
Thomas Newman
Original Music Composer
Donna Stamps
Set Decoration
Debra Neil-Fisher
Editor
Robi Reed
Casting
Kathleen M. McKernin
Art Direction
Lyn Matsuda Norton
Script Supervisor
Barbara Amato
Mark Irwin
Director of Photography
Richard Hoover
Production Design
Jane Prosnit
Production Coordinator
Brad R. Loman
Costume Design
Michael Lazarou
Writer
Albert Aquino
Boom Operator
Jeffrey J. Haboush
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Michael Herbick
Kevin Spears
Supervising Sound Editor
Donald O. Mitchell
Danny Feld
Still Photographer
Russell Williams II
Sound mixer
Jophery C. Brown
Stunt Coordinator
Ron Horwitz
George Budd
Music Editor
Doug Coleman
Stunts
Sigurjón Sighvatsson
Executive Producer