BFI Black Star 1950-70: Risk, reward and revolution - the black star as activist

The Black Star podcast continues with the story of a civil rights campaigner, who also happened to be one of the 1950s' biggest movie stars: Harry Belafonte. Tracing Belafonte’s political awakening back to Paul Robeson – and that star’s unlikely political awakening thanks to a group of striking Welsh miners – we see how Belafonte’s activism has inspired a whole new generation of political black stars. The Black Star podcast is a six-week series celebrating some of the most influential black film stars across the ages. This episode of Black Star contains short clips of the following: -The Banana Boat Song, performed by Harry Belafonte and released by RCA Victor in 1956-Jesse Williams’s speech at the 2016 BET awards, held on June 26th of this year and presented by BET Networks-Amandla Stenberg’s video essay, Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows, produced by Quinn Masterson and Amandla StenbergAND-Harry Belafonte’s address to the 2016 #MKNOW event, footage directed by Paul Fant

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