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☆ Opinion: For Black people, there’s an important history of flight as fight
  + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Opinion Kellie Carter Jackson | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
All throughout African American history, leaving has been a form of refusal — something Black people have done in response to White supremacy for centuries. Flight is one of the most common actions in the history of Black resistance. Everything in the South depended on enslaved labor. Cities were already fragile from White flight: White families that were not interested in integration left cities for the suburbs decades earlier, in the 1940s and 1950s. But in America, as a Black American, what is home?
Persons: Kellie Carter Jackson, Michael, Denise Kellen ’, “, Read, ” Marvin Germain, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Ida B, Wells, Jackson, Paul Robeson, James Baldwin, Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Mabel, Robert Williams Organizations: of Africana Studies, Wellesley College, CNN, American, Poor, Mortgage, realtors, Act, Europe, NAACP, Black Panthers Locations: Canada, Ghana, Portugal, Charleston, Georgia, Virginia, Midwest, Northeast, West Coast ., masse, White, United States, States, Europe, Cuba, China, Detroit, Tanzania, Algeria, America
☆ Opinion: Harry Belafonte lived in – and transformed – two worlds
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Opinion Gene Seymour | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
Gene Seymour Jeremy Freeman/CNNBut history, as it often does, had other ideas for Belafonte, who died April 25 at 96, having lived a long, full life as both entertainer and activist. The times he lived in paved a smoother way for him than the one faced by his mentor and hero Paul Robeson. On the other hand, there was, relatively speaking, only so much Belafonte could do on the entertainment side. Here, as elsewhere in Belafonte’s life, the activism and the entertainment sides of his public life worked in tandem to buttress, offset and enhance the other. Join us on Twitter and FacebookAnd in a gratifying sense, the push-pull of history’s demands worked in Belafonte’s favor as a screen actor.
☆ Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer with a ‘rebel heart,’ dies at 96
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( John Blake Chloe Melas | John Blake | Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +16 min
CNN —Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer, actor and activist who became an indispensable supporter of the civil rights movement, has died, his publicist Ken Sunshine told CNN. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Belafonte, left, plays a school principal in a scene from the film "See How They Run" in 1952. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Belafonte poses with the Emmy Award he won in 1960 for the musical special "Tonight With Belafonte." Fred Sabine/NBCU/Getty Images Belafonte and other recipients of Albert Einstein Commemorative Awards display their medallions after being honored in 1972. He is survived by his wife Pamela, his children Adrienne Belafonte Biesemeyer, Shari Belafonte, Gina Belafonte, David Belafonte, two stepchildren Sarah Frank and Lindsey Frank and eight grandchildren.
☆ Harry Belafonte, calypso star and civil rights champion, dies at 96
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Alex Johnson | Diana Dasrath | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +9 min
Singer Harry Belafonte speaks during a press junket at The Bing Decision Maker Series with the “Sing Your Song” Cast and Filmmakers on January 22, 2011 in Park City, Utah. American singer Harry Belafonte performing in a recording studio, circa 1957. By the early 1960s, Belafonte had become a force in the civil rights movement. A crowd of over 10,000 civil rights marchers gathers in the Manhattan Garment Center as Harry Belafonte sings at spiritual at a civil rights rally. A capacity audience of civil rights advocates turned out to watch a glittering array of theater personalities perform.
☆ Six Decades After the Banana Boat, Harry Belafonte’s Archive Sails Home
  + stars: | 2020-03-13 | by ( Jennifer Schuessler | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When Harry Belafonte turned 93 on March 1, he celebrated with a tribute at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, which ended with a thunderous audience singalong to a riff on his star-making 1956 hit, “The Banana Boat Song,” complete with the rapper Doug E. Fresh beatboxing over its famous “Day-O!” refrain. It was a fitting salute at a building which Mr. Belafonte, in his 2011 memoir, called a “cathedral of spirituality.” But, just a few blocks uptown, he is receiving a quieter but no less momentous celebration. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library, has acquired Mr. Belafonte’s personal archive — a vast maze of photographs, recordings, films, letters, artwork, clipping albums and other materials. It illuminates not just his career as an musician and actor, but as an activist and connector who seemed to know everyone, from Paul Robeson and Marlon Brando to Martin Luther King Jr., the Kennedys and Nelson Mandela.
☆ Harry Belafonte Knows a Thing or Two About New York
  + stars: | 2017-02-03 | by ( John Leland | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Harry Belafonte’s New York was a lot like yours and mine. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a Harlem church basement through Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and met W. E. B. Mr. Belafonte could tell you a thing or two about New York. He has been the best-selling singer in America and a pillar in the civil rights movement. Takes a lot of courage and a lot of power to step into the space and lead a holy war.”
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