Harry Belafonte

Blacks and Republicans: an overdue debate

2012-10-21 05:00:00

Quick quiz: What do LL Cool J, The Rock, 50 Cent, Karl Malone, Don King, Lynn Swann, Wilt Chamberlain, Eldridge Cleaver, Peter Boulware, Tony Dungy and Alveda King, (niece of Martin Luther King Jr.) have in common? If you guessed membership in the...

Tables fit for a king

2012-10-06 00:00:00

At Tark's Grill, diners arrive early for a shot at Table 601, with views of the patio scene and the goings-on at the bar. At Hampden's hot new Food Market, regulars have started zeroing in on the two quiet tables by the front window. And at Kali's Court,...

'Dancing with the Stars' recap: Week 5, Latin night performances

2012-04-17 07:46:00

Apparently, the ballroom was "shellshocked" by last week's bottom two. The ballroom needs to toughen up. Tonight is Latin night. I hope that doesn't mean every other dance is a rumba — booooorrrrring. �We start with Carlos Santana performing "Evil...

Caribbean dinner? No problem, mon

2011-08-18 07:50:00

You probably have a lot of your indoor plants outside on the deck or patio anyway, so why not use them as a backdrop for a summer dinner party? Perhaps you don't have potted palm trees or crotons or the like, but you can put lights in and around what...

HBO's Harry Belafonte biography is one sweet song of a film

2011-10-17 04:40:00

One measure of a great biography is that you start into it thinking you know the subject. and by the end of it, you admit to yourself that you knew only the tip of the iceberg. "Sing Your Song," n HBO documentary film on the life and word of Harry...

Kennedy Center play explores racism and the Nat King Cole television show

2011-06-16 00:00:00

On Nov. 5, 1956, the American network television audience was graced with the soothing, rich and perfect-pitch baritone voice of one of the first African Americans to have his own variety series program. The "Nat King Cole Show" debuted that day on NBC at...

Celebrating Mom with a culinary twist

2011-05-03 10:18:00

What are you going to do with dear old Mom? Things sure got a whole lot easier for me since my brother married a woman who hosts an annual multiple famly annual Mother's Day party and barbecue. If I didn't have that to fall back on, I'd consider one of...

Jackson urges NAACP to push voting issue

2005-07-12 00:00:00

MILWAUKEE - Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson capped off a day of grass-roots political strategizing yesterday by imploring NAACP members to urge their congressional representatives to extend soon-to-expire provisions of the 1965 Voting...

King, Fogerty, Brown To Attend Rock Hall Induction Ceremony

2013-03-27 06:25:00

Several major artists have been announced as additional presenters and performers at the 28th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, taking place April 18 in Los Angeles. Carole King will perform for inductee Lou Adler, John Fogerty and...

Headline

2013-03-18 02:30:06

"Charm ... If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have." -- J.M. Barrie. WELL. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has plenty of "else" to fall back on -- his career, his money, an...

Review: 'Hava Nagila' a lively portrait of the Jewish song

2013-03-14 17:15:00

The short and sweet documentary "Hava Nagila (The Movie)" is a lively portrait of what is arguably the most ubiquitous Jewish song or, as one observer wryly puts it, "the kudzu of Jewish music." Though perhaps best known to recent generations as that...

Daniel Sunjata: A character who can't be typecast

2013-03-07 13:54:00

Welcome to Questions of Characters, the column that puts a name to some of the most familiar faces in movies, on television, the stage and commercials who either hail from Chicago or have spent enough time here to consider it home. Name: Daniel...

Harry Belafonte, winner of the Spingarn Medal, at the Los Angeles Times photo booth.

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Northwestern University celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a week of cultural programming. (All events are free) "Race": A staged reading of David Mamet's crime drama tackling racial guilt. 2 p.m.

2013-01-17 10:08:00

Lionel Richie, Sheila E., Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Harry Belafonte and Smokey Robinson sing "We Are the World" at the 1986 AMAs.

2012-11-16 14:41:03