In 2016, at age 89, Harry Belafonte joined NewYorkerRadio to discuss the state of the civil-rights movement. “I am going to spend the rest of my days perhaps being more radical than I ever thought I would ever be,” he told Jelani Cobb. Listen here.
We take for granted that popular entertainers can and should advocate for causes they believe in. But, until Harry Belafonte pioneered that kind of activism in the middle of the last century, stars largely kept their political leanings private.
In the lead-up to last year’sstaff writer Jelani Cobb paid a visit to the actor, musician, and civil-rights icon. Belafonte turned ninety this year and is looking to pass the torch, but he’s worried about the state of the civil-rights movement and what he sees as a lack of organized response: we have a struggle, he says, but not a movement. Cobb, whoThis segment originally aired on September 30, 2016.
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