Cast of
Seven Songs for Malcolm X

About Seven Songs for Malcolm X

The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.

Full Cast of Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Darrick Harris
plays Malcolm X

Danny Carter
plays Malcolm's Man

Martin Boothe
plays Malcolm's Man

Byron O. Hurlock
plays Malcolm's Man

Edward George
plays Malcolm's Man

Tricia Rose
plays Malcolm's Mother

Theodore L. Cash
plays Malcolm's Father

Olamide Faison
plays Young Malcolm

Giancarlo Esposito
plays Autobiography Reading (voice)

Giancarlo Esposito as Autobiography Reading (voice)

Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (born April 26, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Gu...

See Giancarlo Esposito's other roles

Toni Cade Bambara
plays Commentary (voice)

Coco Fusco
plays FBI Files Reading (as Coco Fusco)

Tiffany Nelson
plays Girl

Tiffany Tate
plays Girl

Wilfred X
plays (as Wilfred Little)

Betty Shabazz

Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Geor...

See Spike Lee's other roles

Greg Tate

Hassan El-Sayeed

Yuri Kochiyama

Thulani Davis

Robin D.G. Kelley
plays (as Robin Kelley)

Patricia Williams

William Kunstler

Benjamin 2X
plays (as Iman Benjamin Karim)

John Henrik Clarke

Peter Goldman

James Farmer

Jan Carew

Malcolm 'Shorty' Jarvis

Peter Bailey


Crew of Seven Songs for Malcolm X

Discover the backstage crew of Seven Songs for Malcolm X →