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Brown:
Excellent documentary about the committed lifelong activism pf Harry
Belafonte. From the days of being blacklisted and harassedt by the
HUAC for his political views, to Selma, Harlem, right wing corporate
Television land, Ethiopia, South Africa, Haiti, to the prisons of
South Central LA Harry Belafonte never stopped fighting oppression and
injustice.
He has been Occupying the world his entire life!
Sing Your Song | : The Official Website of Harry Belafonte
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The Official Website of Harry Belafonte
Thanx to Comrade Charles Brown for this. Belafonte was a trail blazer. His role in "Island in the Sun" was groundbreaking. Imagine a movie showing a relationship between Belafonte and a white woman on a Caribbean island at that time. Prior to that he had made "Bright Road" and "Carmen Jones based upon with the music of the Bizet opera. Both of these were with Dorothy Dandridge but the first was a strictly platonic relationship of a principal and a teacher and the point was the teacher's recognition and development of a 'troubled' child whose talent Dandridge discovered. As fine a non-propaganda-ish relating of the theory of multiple intelligences as as I have come across.
ReplyDeleteThen again against type he was in "Odds Aganst Tomorrow" playing a suave crook opposite the racism of his 'crime-partner', Robert Ryan in a plot to steal a payroll. Belafonte was just as much a banner for multiple intelligences. In addition to a fine actor, he was an even better singer and,most importantly, he used his talents, his fame, his physical body and his money to aid the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
I grew up in Mobile, AL and all of the black theaters were owned by one man, a white man, Mr King. My grandmother, mother and sister all worked in his theaters so we would get in free and brought our own paper bags for popcorn from my sister at the concession stand. King owned the Lincoln, the Booker T and the George Washington Carver theaters in addition to the less provocatively named Pike and Ace theaters.. King showed these movies. Now this is mid-50's to early 60's. King had guts as well as a generous heart.
JA
Thank you comrade JA
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