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Harry Belafonte launches social justice music festival
Associated Press ^ | Jul 14, 2016 3:44 PM EDT

Posted on 07/14/2016 10:09:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Harry Belafonte will launch a racial and social justice festival in October with the inaugural event featuring appearances and performances from actors Chris Rock and Jesse Williams and musicians John Legend and Common.

Belafonte announced Thursday that Sankofa.org, his social justice organization, will put on the “Many Rivers to Cross” music and arts festival on Oct. 1-2 in the Atlanta suburb of Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. The event will promote advocacy and awareness around urgent human rights issues. …

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: belafonte; harrybelafonte; newyork; sankofa; socialjustice
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Mama, look at boo-boo. Shut your mouth; go away.
1 posted on 07/14/2016 10:09:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Pound sand!


2 posted on 07/14/2016 10:23:06 PM PDT by umgud (ban muslims, not guns)
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To: Olog-hai

Not a fan of propaganda music.


3 posted on 07/14/2016 10:27:31 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Olog-hai

Harry Belafonte is still alive?


4 posted on 07/14/2016 10:28:23 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster

Yes; he’s 89.


5 posted on 07/14/2016 10:29:42 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: gubamyster

Not really. He’s a communist and dead inside.


6 posted on 07/14/2016 10:29:56 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: skr

Will he sing his banana boat song???


7 posted on 07/14/2016 10:33:10 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Olog-hai

“Many Rivers to Cross”.....

No, just one ocean when Belafonte and his BLM aholes cross the Atlantic on the way back to Africa.


8 posted on 07/14/2016 10:36:13 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban muslims, NOT guns.....Register liberals, NOT guns)
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To: Olog-hai

Harry Belafonte, get lost. We are sick and tired of your Commie puke. Is this what one does when he has struck gold with his talent? Why does this bonehead hop on a belief system brought into our nation by Commie infiltraters who were sent to undermine America? Does all the money make life soft and their minds soft headed?


9 posted on 07/14/2016 10:37:42 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, that’ll sure fix everything...


10 posted on 07/14/2016 10:44:33 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ ~~~~ Appeasing evil is cowardice.)
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To: Olog-hai

I think we all know how these “music festivals” go.....and it’ll be worse than usual when BLM shows up. They practically destroyed South Beach a few years ago.


11 posted on 07/14/2016 10:49:10 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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To: Olog-hai

Harry Belafonte is still alive? Who knew? Who cared?


12 posted on 07/14/2016 10:50:36 PM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Hillary for Prison!)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

Social justice, make them all work and pay taxes.


13 posted on 07/14/2016 10:51:20 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Olog-hai

A Hate-Fest. I hope it rains HARD there, too.


14 posted on 07/14/2016 10:52:21 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Olog-hai

“Harvey Belefonte ain’t black meathead.....he’s just a good lookin’ white guy dipped in carmel”. (Archie Bunker, ‘Sammy’s Visit’ episode, 1972.)


15 posted on 07/14/2016 11:13:35 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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Will he do the banana song he earned so much off?


16 posted on 07/14/2016 11:25:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai

Chris Rock once had a clear head until he was trained.


17 posted on 07/14/2016 11:32:06 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Olog-hai

Funny how there are no urgent social justice issues in the Communist hellholes he adores.


18 posted on 07/14/2016 11:50:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: jonrick46

Calypso music was a fad pushed in America by the music industry as a replacement for the “fad” known as rock and roll.

Harry Belafonte persisted all of these years because of fellow travelers in red circles.


19 posted on 07/15/2016 12:00:58 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Harry come and me wanna go home.


20 posted on 07/15/2016 12:08:36 AM PDT by Trillian
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