Of all the contributions for which #HarryBelafonte will be remembered, perhaps none is more enduring than the celebrated entertainer’s lifelong support for youth #activism.

From the 1960s until Belafonte’s passing, Belafonte was sought out by young people across several generations for wisdom and guidance

#civilrights #Belafonte #BlackLivesMatter #History #Histodon #BlackFriday

https://theconversation.com/us-army-maj-gen-george-h-thomas-journey-from-enslaver-to-union-officer-to-civil-rights-defender-205950

My tired, bitter heart melted at this tribute to the late Harry #Belafonte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHVe1pn010

#music #prayer #inmemoriam

Lenny #Kravitz - How Long Have You Been Blind (Harry #Belafonte Tribute) https://youtu.be/TR5DNlgQJVs

@nataliedavisgdread
A life well-lived and with purpose. A great example for the rest of us.

This @npr Terry Gross "Fresh Air" interview with Mr. #Belafonte is very good.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1172419169/fresh-air-remembers-harry-belafonte-singer-actor-and-civil-rights-icon

#RestInPower

Harry Belafonte leveraged stardom for social change, his powerful voice always singing a song for justice https://cobbcountycourier.com/2023/04/harry-belafonte-leveraged-stardom-for-social-change-his-powerful-voice-always-singing-a-song-for-justice/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HarryBelafonte #Belafonte #BelafonteSings #BelafonteSongs

when Harry #Belafonte guest-hosted the #TonightShow

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/harry-belafonte-tonight-show-1.6823376

@downey
This line:

“Perhaps, in the end, where your anger comes from is less important than what you do with it.”
— Harry #Belafonte*

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/04/harry-belafonte-obituary
* "...singer, actor and *tireless* activist" (apt label in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies-actor-singer-activist)

The great Harry #Belafonte.
Watch ”Harry Belafonte in His Own Words on Opposing Iraq War & Calling George W. Bush a "Terrorist"” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/_8dhdRdhlos

@rudepundit
This line:

“Perhaps, in the end, where your anger comes from is less important than what you do with it.”
— Harry #Belafonte*

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/04/harry-belafonte-obituary
* "...singer, actor and *tireless* activist" (apt label in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies-actor-singer-activist)

Der Sänger, Schauspieler, Bürgerrechtler und Friedensaktivist Harry #Belafonte ist am 25. April gestorben. Seine großartigen Leistungen würdigte Eva Petermann in der UZ vom 3. März 2017: https://buff.ly/424UqA1

Foto: Manfred Werner - Tsui/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0

Nachruf Harry #Belafonte
Der Jahrhundertkünstler (Tageszeitung junge Welt) https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/449946.nachruf-der-jahrhundertkünstler.html

“We have let the world know that we are in #solidarity with those who seek to have other ways than #war to settle our #grievances,” he told #DemocracyNow! #Belafonte later made worldwide headlines in 2006 when, on a trip to Venezuela, he called President George W. #Bush “the greatest #terrorist in the world.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/26/rip_harry_belafonte

Some of the late singer and actor Harry #Belafonte's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement were public -- but others were more private.

He relayed the concerns of young activists to attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and provided his spacious apartment in NYC as a spot for Martin Luther King and others to plan strategy and unwind over glasses of sherry.

https://theconversation.com/harry-belafonte-leveraged-stardom-for-social-change-his-powerful-voice-always-singing-a-song-for-justice-204500

#News #RIP @histodons #Histodons #BlackMastodon

@canongatebooks This line:

“Perhaps, in the end, where your anger comes from is less important than what you do with it.”
— Harry #Belafonte*

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/04/harry-belafonte-obituary
* "...singer, actor and *tireless* activist" (apt label in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies-actor-singer-activist)

@MadameMollette
J'en suis à mon 5eme visionnage entrecoupé des chansons d'Harry #Belafonte

Et le plus irréel et grandiose hommage à Harry #Belafonte
https://twitter.com/paulac/status/1650869815240802306

Et un joli thread de @ryannoor à propos de ce que représentait ce chanteur pour les gens des îles.
#belafonte
#pouetradio

🎶 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/hole-in-the-bucket-odetta-harry-belafonte-1959-video

Playing Liza and Henry in #song, folk singer #Odetta and singer, actor, and activist #HarryBelafonte sing the circular children’s song A Hole in the Bucket. This December #1959 performance was a part of Tonight With #Belafonte, a nationally televised special described on IMDB as “a musical trip through Black America.”

#video #music #songs #folksong #restinpower #1950s #1960s #television

To remember Harry Belafonte (1927–2023), here are three images by three different photographers whose work is preserved at the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center. #csun #belafonte
Visit our website:
https://www.csun.edu/bradley-center

(19) #Music
Harry #Belafonte died at 96 years.

He "was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement". He criticized also the administrations of George W. Bush and Donald Trump. (wikipedia)

With his interpretation of the song "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", a folk-song from Jamaica, he addressed hard work for too less payment on plantations of banana.

"Work all night on a drink of rum
Day light come and me wanna go home
Stack banana till the morning come
Day light come and me wanna go home"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=H5dpBWlRANE