Harry Belafonte wasn’t an artist who became an activist. He was an activist who happened to be an artist.
Entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte and Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., listen to a speaker during an anti-apartheid demonstration on Capitol Hill in 1985. Belafonte wasn’t an artist who became an activist. He was an activist who happened to be an artist.
Belafonte was a walking rejection of white supremacy, for how could a Black man with his looks, talent, wealth, intellect and success be inferior to the likes of Bull Connor or George Wallace? He was the first Black producer to win an Emmy Award — for a CBS special that was a history of Black life in America through music.
Belafonte wasn’t an artist who became an activist. He was an activist who happened to be an artist. He was his mother’s child, using his great talent, wealth and spotlight to fight injustice.
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