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"Dream bigger": Sheryl Lee Ralph is living proof of her "Abbott Elementary" character's wisdom

Salon

Entertainment icon and ABC’s "Abbott Elementary" star Sheryl Lee Ralph has a unique opportunity to use her role as Mrs. Howard to both highlight the role education has played in her upbringing and shed a light on our nation's real MVPs, public school teachers. “She's a lifelong learner,” Ralph said of her character Mrs. Howard during our conversation for "Salon …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Mel B says she had to 'start all over' when she moved back in with her mother after 'abusive' marriage to Stephen Belafonte left her 'powerless'

Daily Mail

Mel B was forced to move back in with her mother Andrea after she had to 'start all over' when her marriage to Stephen Belafonte ended. Mel B was forced to move back in with her mother Andrea after she had to 'start all over' when her marriage to Stephen Belafonte ended The singer, 48, said the millions she made …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

The stars who open a doorway to the past

Live Mint

The end of each year comes with many rituals. Harry Belafonte’s Jamaica Farewell was in my DNA as were Anup Ghoshal’s joyous songs from Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Bayen films. It’s doubtful that can happen anymore not because there will not be new singers but because our attention is far too fragmented for one song, one singer, one newscaster …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Hope and loss on Memorial Day: It's been a rough year since Buffalo

Salon

I believe in the power of dates and remembrances. Although many towns across the United States from Arlington, Va., to Waterloo, N.Y., claim to have held the "original" Memorial Day, the holiday probably had dozens or hundreds of origins and diffused across the country. As Blight wrote, Black Americans who celebrated Memorial Day "converted Confederate ruin into their own festival …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Farewell to a beloved elder: Activists reflect on Belafonte

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Carmen Berkley, a strategist with a Seattle-based foundation advocating equity and racial justice, remembers meeting Harry Belafonte a decade ago when she was a youth activist. “So many people have stepped into a legacy he helped create,” said David J. Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, which has a mission to “end racism, homophobia, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Opinion: Harry Belafonte and the Birmingham protests that changed America

LA Times

Nonviolent Black student demonstrators were met with fire hoses and dogs in May 1963 during the 10-week Birmingham desegregation campaign organized in part by Martin Luther King Jr. Project Confrontation led to the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Martin Luther King Jr.’s martyrdom and then a new life for his country: Everything from the rise of the Black …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The Glaring Hole In Joe Biden's Praise Of Harry Belafonte's Life Of Activism

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden on Tuesday hailed the life of Harry Belafonte, the music legend and civil rights activist who died at the age of 96. “He will be remembered as a great American.” But for all his praise of Belafonte’s fight for justice and human rights, Biden didn’t mention that Belafonte was a strong, decadeslong advocate for …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

The Independent

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte passes away: Joe Biden, Barack Obama & others pay tribute to the legendary activist & entertainer

Firstpost

Reaction poured in Tuesday from heads of state, civil-rights leaders and the entertainment world following the death of Harry Belafonte at age 96. We Have To Celebrate Our Elders While They Are With Us.” — Spike Lee, who directed Belafonte’s final film, 2018′s BlacKkKlansman.” ___ “Another ‘GREAT TREE’ has fallen: Harry Belafonte, a Trailblazer and Hero to us all. If …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte mourned by entertainment world, Biden, Obama

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Reaction poured in Tuesday from heads of state, civil-rights leaders and the entertainment world following the death of Harry Belafonte at age 96. We Have To Celebrate Our Elders While They Are With Us.” — Spike Lee, who directed Belafonte’s final film, 2018’s BlacKkKlansman.” ___ “Another ‘GREAT TREE’ has fallen: Harry Belafonte, a Trailblazer and Hero to …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte’s music made 1988’s ‘Beetlejuice.’ Here’s how it happened

LA Times

Late entertainer Harry Belafonte once explained why he let director Tim Burton and music mogul David Geffen use his recordings in the 1988 comedy “Beetlejuice.” You can’t have “Beetlejuice” without Harry Belafonte. The oddball feature utilized the King of Calypso’s infectious mid-century tunes — “Jump in the Line,” “Man Smart, Woman Smarter” and “Sweetheart from Venezuela” — to comedic perfection …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, Northern liberals, the billionaire Koch brothers and the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama, whom Belafonte would …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte, singer of ‘Jamaican Farewell’, ‘Banana Boat’, dies at 96

Live Mint

Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said Ken Sunshine, of public relations firm Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis. With his …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte, singer of Jamaican Farewell, passes away at 96 in New York

India Today

Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, Northern liberals, the billionaire Koch brothers and the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama, whom Belafonte would remember asking to …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Hollywood remembers Harry Belafonte as a ‘shining example of how to ... make change’

LA Times

Actors, musicians, filmmakers, authors and more have gathered on social media to celebrate the life and career of Harry Belafonte, who died Tuesday in New York. We Have To Celebrate Our Elders While They Are With Us.” “Another ‘GREAT TREE’ has fallen: Harry Belafonte, a Trailblazer and Hero to us all,” actor and TV host Winfrey wrote. Belafonte was always …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and civil rights activist, dies at 96

LA Times

Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96. A 1959 Time magazine cover story called his act “a brilliantly planned and executed combination of artistry and showmanship.” Belafonte’s emergence as a hugely popular entertainer with both Black and white audiences arrived during a post-World War II era when the civil rights movement was just coming into focus …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Haunted, self-possessed or just spirited: 2022’s Emmy-nominated songs

LA Times

The 2022 Emmy nominees for original music and lyrics. “The melodic concept of ‘The Forever Now’ is something that we’ve been sort of teasing along for a while,” says series composer Siddhartha Khosla. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s” songwriting team of Curtis Moore and Thomas Mizer is used to getting requests from showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino to tailor songs to a particular …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Spice Girl Mel B receives her MBE for services to domestic violence victims at Buckingham Palace

Daily Mail

Mel B received royal honours on Wednesday in the first major investiture at Buckingham Palace since the start of the pandemic. Well-deserved: Mel B received her MBE for services to domestic violence victims from Prince William in the first major investiture at Buckingham Palace since the start of the pandemic on Wednesday Mel, who was also wearing jewellery by Robinson …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Mel B’s daughter, Phoenix, recalls witnessing her mother’s ‘abusive relationship’

The Independent

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Mel B’s daughter, Phoenix Brown, has spoken out about the domestic abuse …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, and became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, has died. Wisdom teacher.” Former President Barack Obama cited his achievements and how he revealed “the …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives

Associated Press

NEW YORK — We go to movies not just to escape, but to discover. I hereby declare myself better than you,’” he wrote in “The Measure of a Man.” In 1964, he became the first Black performer to win the best actor Oscar, for “Lilies of the Field.” He peaked in 1967 with three of the year’s most notable movies: …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Friends Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte ‘made as much mischief as they could’

LA Times

It was the 1940s, and Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte were young men working for the American Negro Theatre in Harlem. Actor and singer Harry Belafonte with Sidney Poitier at the New York premiere of director George Stevens’ film, “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” in which Poitier starred, circa 1965. “They became estranged for a few years in the immediate …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Sidney Poitier dead: Actor who made Hollywood history was 94

LA Times

Sidney Poitier, who made history as the first Black man to win the Oscar for lead actor and starred in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” has died. Actor James Earl Jones agreed: “When he became a star, everyone, white and Black, said, ‘I like this man.’“ 1 / 11 Sidney Poitier starred in and directed “Buck and the Preacher” in …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Sidney Poitier, first Hollywood's major black movie star, dies at 94

India TV News

Highlights Hollywood stars such as Tyler Perry, Whoopi Goldberg, Viola Davis paid tribute Poitier had starred in films, such as 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner', 'In the Heat of the Night' In January of this year, Arizona State University has named its new film school after him Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people …

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"Dream bigger": Sheryl Lee Ralph is living proof of her "Abbott Elementary" character's wisdom

Mel B says she had to 'start all over' when she moved back in with her mother after 'abusive' marriage to Stephen Belafonte left her 'powerless'

The stars who open a doorway to the past

Hope and loss on Memorial Day: It's been a rough year since Buffalo

Farewell to a beloved elder: Activists reflect on Belafonte

Opinion: Harry Belafonte and the Birmingham protests that changed America

The Glaring Hole In Joe Biden's Praise Of Harry Belafonte's Life Of Activism

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Harry Belafonte passes away: Joe Biden, Barack Obama & others pay tribute to the legendary activist & entertainer

Harry Belafonte mourned by entertainment world, Biden, Obama

Harry Belafonte’s music made 1988’s ‘Beetlejuice.’ Here’s how it happened

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Harry Belafonte, singer of ‘Jamaican Farewell’, ‘Banana Boat’, dies at 96

Harry Belafonte, singer of Jamaican Farewell, passes away at 96 in New York

Hollywood remembers Harry Belafonte as a ‘shining example of how to ... make change’

Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and civil rights activist, dies at 96

Haunted, self-possessed or just spirited: 2022’s Emmy-nominated songs

Spice Girl Mel B receives her MBE for services to domestic violence victims at Buckingham Palace

Mel B’s daughter, Phoenix, recalls witnessing her mother’s ‘abusive relationship’

Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies

Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives

Friends Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte ‘made as much mischief as they could’

Sidney Poitier dead: Actor who made Hollywood history was 94

Sidney Poitier, first Hollywood's major black movie star, dies at 94