Film explores the tragic, but largely forgotten, 1937 incident in Chicago when police shot 40 steel workers and supporters (mainly in the back) and killed ten of them. Commentary by Studs Terkel, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.
Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture. Lesson plan for educators, coming soon.
In 2010 geneticists uncovered an entirely new branch of human evolution, which they called the Denisovans. Today I make the argument we have found them. Source.
Harry Belafonte on the intersection of music and race and the influence that Paul Robeson had on his career and the Black community as a whole.
In Belafonte's New York cemetery version of the Calypso classic, humanity is slyly warned not to incinerate ourselves.
Explore the week of The Tonight Show where Harry Belafonte invited guests like Aretha Franklin, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Dionne Warwick to wake up America.
With the election of the first black US president, Fault Lines' Avi Lewis sat down with legendary music icon, Harry Belafonte, to get his thoughts on Barack Obama and the changing politics of race.
No words spoken, and none needed.
We spoke to writers behind hit shows like Abbott Elementary and Containment to understand why Hollywood writers may go on strike.
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