tonight, part two of our conversation with the iconic harry belafonte. he is out with a new memoir called "my song." learn about his on likely path to success and his views on the current state of affairs. we are glad you joined us. coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. tavis: backed now with part two of our conversation with harry belafonte. the film is "sing your song". pick up a copy of his memoir, "my song." we left our conversation last night with me asking you about the path you had to take to find the good and how

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>> i have been a huge fan of harry belafonte what about >>jan: this -- from? from this film?s political activism. his eloquent speech patterns. and >>jan: harry belafonte marched with the civil rights movements. what does it say about you? >> it is amazing what is bereft of his career and the most political for thinking guy he is been doing it for decades. what a massive achievement his life has been towards social justice. >>jan: what is coming up at your theater? >> every day sunshine. it is from fish bound. it will be around all weekend. it is from a fish bone -- >> also, apartheid south africa that was shot secretly. >>jan: i want you to think this is amazing and thank you both. this is how you can see " sing your song ". go to their theater, 16th st. great film experiences we need that some much. i will talk about my top 10. you liked my list? right? and at the golden globe awards. and let us check in on the sunshine! >>janu: twitter we are expecting -- plenty of sunshine. lots of blue skies, a gorgeous start. it is hot, a bit windy. temperatures are going to be 46 to st

tavis: i was just reading harry belafonte and i did not know the extent to which the raspiness, the sound he has, has to do with this very thing. he had throat surgery and he was a great singer and his voice never came back and that raspy heny sound you hear now is the surgery he had. he talks about it in his book and i raise that now because i can imagine your voice is your career. >> my voice is my career and after the first two weeks of my surgery, i couldn't talk. the doctors did nerve monitoring and said your voice will come back. but it's a blessing. so many people out there are dealing with so many things that are far worse than my condition. number two, i had the best health care available to me. and so i feel so blessed, so fortunate. and i'm good, man. i'm good. in part, i weave that into this book. it is not susie ormond but somewhere in between. tavis: i want people to purchase your book, but take a couple of them and draw the parallels from your cure to "the wealth cure," the parallel you made and make the linching for me. >> there was -- the link for me. >> when we see the o

harry belafonte is a good example of that in my opinion.t say that you were in that category. >> i would say most black women are in that category. >> bill: i would agree. >> people want to put us in that category. >> bill: i don't know who those people are. oprah winfrey, the biggest? >> according to call thomas she is the only non-angry black woman on television. >> bill: we would agree that oprah winfrey is not an angry black woman. >> we would agree with that. >> bill: queen latifah, big big star, i don't think she is an angry black woman do you. >> no, i don't. >> bill: you have oprah and queen latifah. i went through my mind today and said who is now representing the angry black women of the world in the media? and i couldn't come up with anybody. >> bill, can i tell you what happens. it is a stigma. it's not just a woman who represents that. it is a stigma. a stigma that attaches to women in leadership positions when they are told you are being too outspoken. strength does not mean anger. >> bill: about color or all women get that? >

martin luther king to harry belafonte. i don't understand the question i have a great last question that i have one i am not sure that you can address but what about the child civil-rights? >> guest: those are not this civil-rights questions restocking about. >> host: that's is the definition of civil rights could be broad but that is not the subject. >> host: this is the last question. what would you have for individuals to exercise their power or position in society on a day-to-day basis despite the more subtle forms? what the people do who want to make a difference? >> i would say focus on the local issues that are closest to you and look for the ways the subtle biases could affect the institutions that you are a part of and the difficult part is very often the practices that are vulnerable to buy as or give rise there also justified for other reasons. and wal-mart, scott store managers have broad discussions to make decisions of criteria that might be a perfectly good strategy to make the business conduct themselves bu

and harry belafonte says that barack obama does not deserve a second term, he lacks a moral compass. no not at all. when you look at republican candidates, i've got to be honest, i see mediocrity, and mean spiritedness to the poor and too many of them not being for real. one of the reasons that ron paul is doing so well. and he is to are real even though i disagree with him 85% of the time, but no doubt that barack obama is much better than the republicans. my problem is i wish barack obama were even more intense in terms of his commitment to the poor. >> sean: he's given us 5 trillion in debt and got his health care bill through and stimulus through and gave money to his cronies at solyndra and sun power and quote cronies, and you want more speing and more government. >> not at all. >> sean: no? >> my problem in america, ole garths rule and rotating politicians reign. look at big money in new hampshire and south carolina, and here goes money from the-- >> obama had a billion dollars to smear republicans. >> i know, it's big business, and big money across the board. that's what i'm c

harry belafonte will be here from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m..i've been reading his book called my song which will be signed and policy studies will be doing an interview with him on the main stage main stage there in the main room. but one little story to be told which is fascinating and reminded me of you mr. nader is that sammy davis jr. lost an eye to an accident where the part of the wheel, which was used to be made pointy because it looked you know more or whatever, when the car hit another car front the sharp part of the wheel went into his eye and made them blind. i didn't know that but it was the work that you did on auto safety that would have prevented that from happening. >> it's the steering column. i have to say i got stained years ago. i was losing my friends to highway crashes, much more than they do today. there was a much higher death rate and i would lose them in high school. i would lose them in college or they would come back. holy chicks. the minute i -- paraplegics. the minute i saw people in detroit were keeping on the sea

martin luther king to harry belafonte. this is a great sort of last question and one that i am not totally sure we can address but do you consider the abuse of children by adults to be a violation of child civil-rights? >> sure. but those are not the kind of civil-rights we are talking about. >> that is on another -- on another -- >> the definition of civil rights can be quite broad and doesn't include that. >> this will be the last question. what advice would you have for individuals to exercise their power or positions in society on a day to day basis despite the more subtle forms of violence? an individual moral -- what can people do to make a difference? >> i would say focus on the local issues that are closest to you and look for ways subtle biases may be affecting the decision of the institutions you are part of and the difficult part with this is very often the practices that are vulnerable to bias or give rise to bias are considered justified for other reasons. in the walmart case, letting individual managers have

hot now there is a great document recall seeing your song about harry belafonte that made it out thereovie about a scary smoke west is really terrific milken's role in this and coal written it. it is beautiful. love it. robert >>gary: i will tell you again i want liza minnelli in a cabaret. i once indeed. when i was in school that is when i when i got my first cadillac after watching super fly. i want something that touches lin not something that i have to sit and think about it and >> and i want someone who touches me. [laughter] . >> another help, if some read the booklet may not love to leave. i did not read the book so heavy--the boo herk just took --the book just took me awa aly. no males sheet date in late july 14th. wissman and her that it came >> and she had very good posture she came from nothing working class, and she becomes inevitable and if and when to look at my face instead of my breasts? [laughter] at the adult his colleagues and >> of--andrew young will bolt is charley taylor and. --young adult is charlene's therein. >>gary: now here are the top five. this is a list th

>> guest: that one was taken a few years later with harry belafonte, julian bond and his wife, along with my wife, lillian. c-span: and how much, overall, has your wife played in your campaigns? >> guest: my wife's been--she's m--my closest and dearest friend. she has played a major role in every campaign--in every campaign. she got out and she campaigned very hard and she worked very, very hard. she knows a lot of people. and she's a good talker, and she's been a--a--a real soulmate, really. c-span: there are two things in the book that i wanna ask you about. one is that when you were young, you talk about going to the library every day to read the nashville tennesseean when you were in school. who introduced you to reading newspapers, and why did you do that every day? >> guest: well, when i was in--in this rural high school in pike county, alabama, we had a librarian--maybe we called it a reading room, but to the woman in charge, it was called the librarian--and she always said, 'read. read. read everything.' and we'd go down there, and sometimes she would just say--tell the stude

and coming up my oscar take and the harry belafonte film. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, ruth a san leandro. early works and we saw sunshine. >> if this fais it changing? >> yes. you can see that blue sky. >>janu: if we are waking up to mostly clear conditions and light breezes it is a chilly start. we will continue to see it that sunshine and a slight chance for sprinkles overnight into monday. let us talk about those chilly conditions if your going into the north bay. it is only 32 degrees in santa rosa. mid 30's in fairfield. 54 in half moon bay. those 50's will be more widespread indicated by the light blue on your screen. the afternoon will all be in the 60s. for those of you headed out? still pretty chilly in the north bay. 40s and 50s for the rest of us. let us get a closer look. 60s and the south bay. 65 degrees expected in livermore, oakland and redwood city. 62 degrees in redwood city. bring your jacket! 63 in san francisco and mid-60s and novado, richmon, napa, 63 expected in fairfield. the satellite and radar showing this high-pressure system to the north. it could

herman cain was called a bad apple by a person who pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, harry belafonte. why was he called that? you put 90% of this panel in the same barrel with the progress of liberals that are poisoning our children in our schools, better poisoned our communities, they will in fact ruin it. for the progress of/liberal agenda. i encourage everybody who see this type of corruption going on, from the pulpit to the state house, to the white house, to become bad apples and, in fact, they will s indeedpawn a next generation and they have spoiled almost two generations of people who have become enslaved to a system that must be addressed by people sitting in this room today. [applause] >> preach, pastor. in a republican -- as a republican in a hard hit democratic district, i lost overwhelmingly. i knew i had the right message and i thought often about slavery and i ask the question of why after slavery in this country and did, there were 4 million slaves, why did only 1 million leave this out? what was wrong with the rest of them? you are right, there is a complacency and a

herman cain called a bad apple by a person who pulled himself up by his own boot strings, harry belafonte he called that? i will tell you why. you put 90% of this panel in the same crate, in the same barrel with the progressive liberals that are poisoning our children in our schools, that are poisoning our communities, they will, in fact, ruin it for the progressive liberal agenda. i encourage everybody who see this type of corruption going on, from the pulpit to the statehouse, to the white house, to become bad apples, and, in fact, let's ruin it, because they will, indeed, spoil a next generation, and they have spoiled almost two generations of people who have become enslaved to a system that must be addressed by people sitting in this room today. passion. the analogy that he shared with you, let me peel the onion for you a little bit more. i know men that i talk to that are pastors that had not sold out in the pulpit on sunday mornings. i talked to him. i worship with them. i have not spoken with these men, but i will name a few. tony evans, brett price, bill winston. they preach to me