Tag: Harry Belafonte

February 02, 2013

Harry Belafonte tells it like it is in a speech at the NAACP Image Awards

  Tony E   2 Comments

Singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte gave the audience at the 2013 NAACP Image Awards a serious wake up call during a speech he gave after recieving a special award that was handed to him by his dear friend

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January 25, 2012

One On One profile of Harry Belafonte on NY1

  Tony E   No comments

The NY1 television station in New York has a great profile of Harlem born performer and activist Harry Belafonte on the show “One On One with Budd Mishkin” this week.  You might notice that they shot some of the video

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December 06, 2011

Harry Belafonte Book Signing at Hue-Man Bookstore

  Tony E   No comments

I don’t know where you’ll be this Wednesday evening (12/07/2011) at 6:00pm, but I will have a place on line to get my copy of Harry Belafonte’s new book “My Song: A Memoir” signed by the man himself at Hue-Man

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October 10, 2011

Harry Belafonte: America’s first black matinee idol and advocate social change.

  Mico HarlemTrends   No comments

In 1956, Harlem-bred child of Caribbean immigrants Harry Belafonte released the first million-selling LP in history.  He was bigger than Elvis.  Belafonte used the proceeds from Calypso to bankroll his friend Martin Luther King Jr.’s movement for civil rights. All of this

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