Mes: septiembre 2019

Even before Harry Belafonte won global fame as a performer, he saw himself as part of a grand tradition of artists who use their voices for change. His role model was Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and activist whose career was derailed by McCarthyism.  This week, the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress honored Belafonte by selecting his 1956 album “Calypso” for permanent preservation.  CBS News’ Vladimir Duthiers sat down with Belafonte, who drew a direct line from his years traveling the world with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 전라남도출장만남 back to something Robeson told him when he was just starting out. Harry Belafonte: “He said, artists are the gatekeepers of truth. He said only through the world of the arts do we know who and what we are in the history of civilization. Long before historians. Long before people ascribe themselves as the caretakers of life and culture. The song did that, and in the black community, it was our primary tool of communication. So I saw the song as having something far more than something to delight audiences and people could dance and sing. It had content, and I began to see this content of black protest music.” Vladimir Duthiers: “It strikes me that you are willing to risk everything for your beliefs, and I wonder if – did you ever think about that, that...

(AP) MEXICO CITY – After police found 49 dismembered bodies strewn on a Mexican highway leading to the Texas border, 카지노사이트 it took the army just a week to parade an alleged drug trafficker before journalists as the man who purportedly oversaw the body dump. Yet two months after the grisly discovery in Nuevo Leon state, authorities have not identified a single victim. Violence in Mexico little discussed by presidential...