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, …
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 …
NEW YORK — Harry Belafonte made history in early 1968. That fascinating week of late night is the subject of the new Peacock documentary “The Sit-In,” which airs Thursday and celebrates Belafonte’s strategic and profound mix of art and politics. “It went a long way to kind of normalize Black middle class and Black upper middle class life.” The film …
