An Evening with Harry Belafonte
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 6:00 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Harry Belafonte
As both an artist and an activist, Harry Belafonte has touched the lives of countless men and women. He is not just one of the best entertainers of our time, he has led one of the great American lives of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Harry Belafonte’s l956 album, Calypso, made him the first artist in history to sell more than one million LPs. He has won both a Tony award and an Emmy, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. He has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors for excellence in the performing arts. In his memoir, My Song (Knopf, $30.50), this extraordinary icon tells about it all — his poverty-ridden childhood in Harlem and Jamaica; his meteoric rise to become one of the world’s most popular singer;, breaking down racial barriers that no one had broken before; achieving equal popularity with white and black audiences; and his lifelong, passionate involvement at the heart of the civil rights movement and countless other political and social causes.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
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