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you belafonte spent like quality time, personal time. he's one of the few people who i interviewed who i felt like stop to ask dr. king how he was doing. how are you holding up? you know, he would make time just for the two of them to hang out, have some quiet time. there were so many demands him and everybody wanted something. but belafonte was and famous. he wanted to help. he didn't. and he said at one point he noticed that martin, as he called him, had a little tic, like a little, a little almost like a hiccup you couldn't hear unless you were alone in the room with him. it was like a constant swallowing and. it went on for months, maybe years. and then one day when belafonte saw him again, dr. said it was gone. belafonte noticed that was gone. and he said, martin, what happened to your tic? said, i cured it. they'll say, how do you cure it? so i peace with death. happy man who was making a movie about martin luther king asked him, i'll shoot the movie end and he said, do you remember me getting killed? yeah, that's what little abbey
you belafonte spent like quality time, personal time. he's one of the few people who i interviewed who i felt like stop to ask dr. king how he was doing. how are you holding up? you know, he would make time just for the two of them to hang out, have some quiet time. there were so many demands him and everybody wanted something. but belafonte was and famous. he wanted to help. he didn't. and he said at one point he noticed that martin, as he called him, had a little tic, like a little, a little...
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usually because they were too controversial belafonte stack the show full of african american arkin guests, activist, liberal politicians who didn't mean gentleman, the reverend dr. martin luther king constantly is making a statement without him personally making the statement, but he made the statement and a big way well, i'm delighted to be here, howard berrada, washington this afternoon and as soon as we started out, they notified of the plane had mechanical difficulties and whenever our land after mechanical different i'm already happened. i don't want to give you an impression that as a baptist preacher i don't have faith in god and it's simply that i've had more experience with them on the ground person wants to watching this week as harry belafonte said, a lot of things. >> johnny wish he could have said it was a bold thing to do because it was a volatile time. >> he lost the whole southern audience because he did that cause it was so popular as soon as he came back, the audience came flooding back to him. >> two of the guests that belafonte had interviewed would be assassinated. >>
usually because they were too controversial belafonte stack the show full of african american arkin guests, activist, liberal politicians who didn't mean gentleman, the reverend dr. martin luther king constantly is making a statement without him personally making the statement, but he made the statement and a big way well, i'm delighted to be here, howard berrada, washington this afternoon and as soon as we started out, they notified of the plane had mechanical difficulties and whenever our...
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you belafonte spent like quality time, personal time. he's one of the few people who i interviewed who i felt like stop to ask dr. king how he was doing. how are you holding up? you know, he would make time just for the two of them to hang out, have some quiet time. there were so many demands him and everybody wanted something. but belafonte was and famous. he wanted to help. he didn't. and he said at one point he noticed that martin, as he called him, had a little tic, like a little, a little almost like a hiccup you couldn't hear unless you were alone in the room with him. it was like a constant swallowing and. it went on for months, maybe years. and then one day when belafonte saw him again, dr. said it was gone. belafonte noticed that was gone. and he said, martin, what happened to your tic? said, i cured it. they'll say, how do you cure it? so i peace with death. happy man who was making a movie about martin luther king asked him, i'll shoot the movie end and he said, do you remember me getting killed? yeah, that's what little abbey
you belafonte spent like quality time, personal time. he's one of the few people who i interviewed who i felt like stop to ask dr. king how he was doing. how are you holding up? you know, he would make time just for the two of them to hang out, have some quiet time. there were so many demands him and everybody wanted something. but belafonte was and famous. he wanted to help. he didn't. and he said at one point he noticed that martin, as he called him, had a little tic, like a little, a little...
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then it became this iconic concert venue with liza, judy, diana ross, harry belafonte. it became a traditional broadway house, then has been closed a long time. this is the first time it's coming back to life. to be the one to get to kick that off feels like a huge responsibility and a privilege. >> juju: no pressure, no big deal. however, it's everything. you're setting the set. who are the special guests? what's the merch going to look like? give us a sense. >> getting to play a character and be part of somebody's story, to just get to express my own point of view in a house that's storied like this, feels like a really special opportunity. it's like this bridging of these two worlds that i love of the theater community i've dreamt of my whole life, then this opportunity to be a songwriter. i'm a pretty introspective and introverted person. i do have trouble sometimes getting outside myself and outside my head and communicating and feeling comfortable. i think always, music's been a space where i feel very free to do that. >> juju: you talked about "cherry on top" of
then it became this iconic concert venue with liza, judy, diana ross, harry belafonte. it became a traditional broadway house, then has been closed a long time. this is the first time it's coming back to life. to be the one to get to kick that off feels like a huge responsibility and a privilege. >> juju: no pressure, no big deal. however, it's everything. you're setting the set. who are the special guests? what's the merch going to look like? give us a sense. >> getting to play a...
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julie london, johnny mathis, harry belafonte, sarah vaughan, chet baker. that's the kind of vocalist i've always been really drawn to and very inspired by. i feel like we're lacking vocals, you know what i'm saying? i don't know. i don't know what [bleep] i'm saying, guys. if you are not every vocalist has a recognizable style as soon as you hear that. you know billie eilish when you hear her. was that the product of your love for these other artists just coming out through you or a choice? >> billie: i think that it first, you know i started recording when i was 13. you've got to take time to get to know yourself. i think at first it was, i was seeing the way i knew how to sing in the way i felt like it sounded good. with inspiration from my favorite singers and songs and artists. i think over time i learned who i was and how i actually wanted to sound and what was genuine. that's why i think it's really important that people are more forgiving of inspiration because i think that we live in a world where everyone wants to have everything be perfectly orig
julie london, johnny mathis, harry belafonte, sarah vaughan, chet baker. that's the kind of vocalist i've always been really drawn to and very inspired by. i feel like we're lacking vocals, you know what i'm saying? i don't know. i don't know what [bleep] i'm saying, guys. if you are not every vocalist has a recognizable style as soon as you hear that. you know billie eilish when you hear her. was that the product of your love for these other artists just coming out through you or a choice?...
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it was a kind of closed door gathering where i won't say everyone belafonte, whose artistry activism shaped half a decade or moreof all the people we've talked about and who had a very capacious37 democracy. he in a talking about what had t occurred in the electioged in ts the way in democratic consultants and strategists swooped into red states and purples trying to mobilize and get out the vote and then go a it was a crystallizatn ofha is the failue of investment in infrastructure e lack of commitment to encouraging own diagnosis of what ails them in their local spaces, even if those local spaces connect us both tol and the global. and it was a kind of predatory politics that ultimately only wanted from thesen a box and nog more. right. and i'm■Ñ little evidence right now with the resounding exception of the work of black voters matter with latosha brown and of course stacey abrams work out of georgia g the 2024 election that i'm not sure that the democratic party has learned this lesson or that local leaders are■? themselves challenging this practice in ways that will foretel
it was a kind of closed door gathering where i won't say everyone belafonte, whose artistry activism shaped half a decade or moreof all the people we've talked about and who had a very capacious37 democracy. he in a talking about what had t occurred in the electioged in ts the way in democratic consultants and strategists swooped into red states and purples trying to mobilize and get out the vote and then go a it was a crystallizatn ofha is the failue of investment in infrastructure e lack of...
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know, we can talk all day about conspiracy theories, but it's clear that and this is something harry belafonte preached the way to the end that we don't like radicals in this country. we're uncomfortable with radicals, even though we're a country born of revolution. we don't teach radicalism in our schools. we have managed to portray it as a bad thing. and look how many our radicals have been eliminated because of that, because we've created that culture. i think, okay, let's do right here in the middle. just a second. let's go to to you. hi. thank you very much for coming to speak with us this evening. i am the generation of elementary that you talked about. i up watching my friend martin and growing up with this very idealized of martin luther king and being taught that the civil rights movement was over, that equality had been achieved once. we elected a black president. as we can see, the civil rights movement has not ended. it has transformed. it's taken on different focuses. so it's shifted away from segregation and towards police brutality to justice. my question to you is what impact d
know, we can talk all day about conspiracy theories, but it's clear that and this is something harry belafonte preached the way to the end that we don't like radicals in this country. we're uncomfortable with radicals, even though we're a country born of revolution. we don't teach radicalism in our schools. we have managed to portray it as a bad thing. and look how many our radicals have been eliminated because of that, because we've created that culture. i think, okay, let's do right here in...
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of closed door gathering where i won't say everyone that was in the room, but the late great harry belafonte, whose artistry activism shaped half a decade or more of of all the people we've talked about and who had a very capacious vision of of democracy. he was in a room with people talking about what had just occurred in the election of donald trump. and one of the insights that emerged in this conversation was the way in which democratic consultants and strategists swooped into red states and purple states trying to mobilize and get out the vote and then go home. i mean, it was a it was a crystallization of what you just described, which is the failure of investment in infrastructure, the lack of commitment to encouraging people to have ownership through their own diagnosis of what ails them in their local spaces, even if those local spaces connect us both to the national and the global. and it was a kind of predatory politics that ultimately only wanted from these people a ballot in a box and nothing more. right. and i'm afraid that there's so little evidence right now with the resoundin
of closed door gathering where i won't say everyone that was in the room, but the late great harry belafonte, whose artistry activism shaped half a decade or more of of all the people we've talked about and who had a very capacious vision of of democracy. he was in a room with people talking about what had just occurred in the election of donald trump. and one of the insights that emerged in this conversation was the way in which democratic consultants and strategists swooped into red states...