Belafonte

Still, he had a backup plan: If King’s estate said no, he’d go with a Harry Belafonte cutout.

Did Ross still shoot a version with the Belafonte cutout, just in case the King estate changed its mind?

South Africa's Mariam Makeba was the first to win one - Best Folk Recording - in 1966 for her collaboration with Harry Belafonte, called simply An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba.

The celebrity political culture of our time, a far cry from the audacious front-line activism of Harry Belafonte during the civil rights movement or Jane Fonda against the Vietnam War, turns out to be the logical end point of the fear that Obama’s 2008 slogan, “Hope,” was fundamentally empty if it didn’t specify the hoped-for.

I remember there was an old film with Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge called “Bright Road” about young Black educators.