harry belafonte and dr. king. another thing to keep in mind when we take a look at the music of the movement, african-american music had a global popularity. many jazz musicians had toured in europe going back to the 1920s and 1930s, including louis armstrong, and it's -- it's -- the civil rights movement is really an international phenomenon in large part because it's happening at the same time as the cold war, and it's happening at the same time as african independence movements. and here you see some images of louis armstrong. louis armstrong was drafted by the state department as a cultural ambassador, and so he was sent all over the world, to africa and eastern europe primarily, as an instrument of cultural diplomacy during the cold war. here you have him playing at the sphinx and the photo on the left is armstrong performing at an orphanage in cairo in the late 1950s. armstrong is someone who is universally popular, and the state department, many people would have criticized the state department in the 1960s

my friend herman cain was called a bad apple by harry belafonte. and i tell you today that that type of thinking is exactly what the progressive left wants to keep a certain group of people believing. that people like myself, people like herman, if you place that bad apple in the barrel with the rest of them, they are going to spoil those who we have already in the barrel. and americans, i say to you that as one who was a part of that system, one who ran away from that system, and found freedom for myself as i now return to tell others, that you can be free, the same thing happens to me as did to them 150 years ago. but except the dogs that are sicced on them now and the overseers that are sicced on us now, the dogs are no longer four-legged hounds, they are two-legged hounds in the shape of sal sharp on the and jesse jackson and people like that. those are the ones who would capture the runaways. but yet freedom is all around us. and we must, in fact, secure it. my friends, whether you came here on the mayflower, or whether you came here on slave

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my friend herman cain was called a bad appleby harry belafonte. -- apple by harry belafonte. and i tell you today that type of thinking is exactly what the progressive left wants to keep a certain group of people believing. that people like myself, people like herman, if you place that bad apple in the barrel with the rest of them, they're going to spoil those who we have already in this barrel. and americans, i say to you, that as one who was a part of that system, one who ran away from that system, and found freedom for myself, as i now return to tell others, that you can be free, the same thing happens to me. as did to them 150 years ago. but the dogs that are sicked on them now and the overseers that are secked on us now, the dogs -- sicked on us now, the dogs are no longer four-legged hounds, two-legged hounds in the shape of al sharpton and jesse jackson and people like that. those are the ones. [applause] but yet freedom is all around us. and we must in fact secure it. my friends, whether you came here on the mayflower, or whether you came here on slave ships, america

>> that same night, harry belafonte presented him with the officers' award from the sidney hillman foundationdvocacy for and support of working people across the world." this week he's in chicago, singing for the nurses' union, and their protest calling for wall street accountability. tom morello, welcome. >> thanks very much. >> so at all these protests, what's your message? >> my message there is -- what my job is as a -- i didn't choose to be a guitar player. that's something that was a calling. that was something that felt like it was chosen for me. and with that blessing and curse, i, throughout my entire career, it's been my job to weave my convictions into my vocation. and so, whether i'm standing in the streets of chicago or the occupy wall street or in madison, wisconsin, my job is to steel the backbone of people on the front lines of social justice struggles and to put wind in sails of those struggles. and people who are fighting on a -- on a daily basis, at a grassroots level, for the things that i believe in. >> it's sort of like people going to church. they may not know each othe

. >> singer, actor, and activist harry belafonte travels to the most violent places in the world.lence. >> with his inspirational words belafonte gives each inmate a personal challenge. >> your failure is my failure. your success is my success. somewhere where you go, you carry a responsibility and the destiny of my children and my children's children and their friends and their community. and they can either look at you as someone as a group to be shunned or they can look at you as an example of how to take the worst cards dealt in life and turn the deck around and make it your game and play a winning hand every time out. [ applause ] >> get the community's focus on something it can have faith in, and for that institution to then move to the outside world and says you must look in a very different way at how the prison population is being treated. i think it's a great opportunity. >>> next on "lockup" -- inmates in the l.a. county jail get back their freedom. down here, folks measure commitment by what's getting done. the twenty billion dollars bp committed has helped fund econom

what we do as actors in the actors fund and anne and i are being honored this coming week with harry belafonteear they give us some kind of way to raise money to keep the actors alive when actors are no longer working. they needed someplace to go. >> right. >> we have the actors fund of america. it's been around since 1885. buffalo bill was part of this thing. >> what? i didn't know that. >> buffalo bill. now you know. so anyway, that's the story. and we still exist in some way and this monday we're having this gala at the -- >> at the marriott hotel. >> and harry bellefonte and david steiner are being honored. >> wow. >> we keep -- we have a home in englewood, new jersey. we have one -- >> i love that home. >> we went over there. we visited the home. it's like what do you call it? >> listen, this web show, is that still going? >> no. >> i want that back. i want to be on it. >> you're taking care of health care and everything else. >> anything. he fought to get the cobra bill passed. >> yes. >> i guess part of my existence being that character on "seinfeld" i was able to use frank kostanza to