muhammad, and the one and only gina belafonte, daughter of activist and entertainer harry belafonte.rt with you, gina. your dad was an activist as long as any of us can remember. and he did it because he believed that he didn't have to. he was a top-level, grade a entertainer, yet he worked with paul robeson and dr. king and conversed with malcolm x, at great risk to his career and at great risk to his own safety. you were born into this. what burden did it put on you? i know that some of your contemporaries can see you at an opening of a concert or play or musical, but they didn't know the downside of being harry belafonte's daughter >> right. absolutely. first of all, thank you so much for having us on the show. hey, dom, i'm so happy to be here with my sisters to talk about these sort of inside scoops and issues in our lives. yeah, you know, my father was an activist before he became a performer. it was something innate in his nature, something he learned from his family, his mother in particular. being an activist and being on the front lines or taking on such kinds of issues was

harry belafonte, diana ross. joe louis. any dealer good enough for joe louis is good enough for me. it. -okay. -we're gonna have fun. -okay, let's do it. first, a few practice rounds. you don't need to explain anything. -21, baby. -we'll do it again. okay. okay, that's 10. now, i have a deuce showing. okay. now, you have to assume -- always assume that it's a 10 underneath. -okay. -so what do i have? -you have 12. -okay. that's 18. now you want 20. there you go. -okay. we're doing good. -let me pay you first. to be honest, losing at roulette was a distant memory. you told me you didn't know how to play this game! then i was ready to join a real game with real money. -i can't beat you, marcus. -this is too easy. biggest bet you've ever seen? biggest bet i've ever seen was $75,000 a hand. and did they come out ahead or behind? they came out ahead. well, i wasn't willing to go quite that far. -come on. -benny dealt me a 20. i stayed. i was just wondering, was you thinking about splitting that? -[ laughs ] -when it first went down, but i remember what you told me. -right. -we don't spli

met her at the atlanta airport and we had four or five other people to go, and he was there, harry belafonte, a couple staff people. we went to pick up bargains bo body. we talked on the plane for a little bit. she said i don't know what i'm going to do. she was devastated. when we got to memphis they met us at the airport and said you've got to march what are you going to do? i'm going to march but as soon as we finish this we are marching right back to this plane with his body and going back to atlanta, which is what we did. we marched for a short distance because we have his children there and crowds of people. this is a very, very bad time. >> because time is very short, many years later i think in 1986, you get another call from her, from coretta scott king saying she's going to south africa and she would like you to go with her so you go. this is all in the book so i'm going to compress this. at that point you meet winnie mandela but you don't get to meet nelson mandela. you become the first person to go in for two hours, the first of this is which you describe very vividly in the book

i once was begin to harry belafonte and said, when you get on in years and can't remember your almostaily conversations with dr. king, you can just apply under the freedom of information act to the fbi to get the transcript of all of the conversations you had lost up robert kennedy, johnson's attorney general, had king wiretapped. talk about that relationship and did inndon johnson signing by the civil rights act in one year later, the voting rights act. >> in the case you just played, the most significant line was the first two lines that johnson said. he says, basically, if you make it easier for negroes to register, 70% of your problems are self. johnson believed if black people were given the right to vote, they could take care of a lot themseselves. they would start electing their own officials. they would s start to chanange america. so he is saying taking, the thing i'm concentrating on is ththat you can register just as easy as going into a post o offe . if we e give them m the power to vote, theyey will haveve the p r -- martitin luther king for a ag time didid not trustst ly