The Hit Farm

Harry Belafonte has released a memoir and a CD to coincide with this documentary. The film tells the story of the famous singer and his battles during the civil rights era and the activism that continued later in life. Did you know he coordinated Viva La Harry Belafonte! Give them hell Harry! We real blacks [...]

By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro In 1956, a Harlem-bred child of Caribbean immigrants released the first million-selling LP in history—Harry Belafonte was bigger than Elvis. But where Elvis built Graceland, Belafonte used the proceeds from Calypso to bankroll As the legendary Harry Belafonte sat down with HLN's Joy Behar to discuss his new memoir 'My Life', he [...]

After has-been calypso singer Harry Belafonte called Cain a “bad apple” in the black community yesterday and do-nothing academician Cornell West suggested he put down the symbolic crack pipe (whatever that means), After has-been calypso singer Harry Belafonte called Cain a “bad apple” in the black community yesterday and do-nothing academician Cornell West suggested he [...]