The King Of Calypso is about as frivolous and inappropriate a moniker for Harry Belafonte as possible. With the calypso and hits like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” in the Fifties, he certainly ...
Harry Belafonte’s biography, "My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance," showed how the veteran civil rights leader and Hollywood legend was a master at building relationships with the political ...
We repost below a May 2012 WSWS article (“Harry Belafonte provides an historical insight into the civil rights movement’s decay”), which discusses the political role of the famous actor and singer ...