being pitched very often. certainly you could say it was an outcome of the clarence thomas and anita hill hearing that black people could hold the audience with a drama without taking their clothes off. television networks were under the impression that their advertising rates would be lower for the black family shows. there was just a sense that my colleagues did not want basically an all black cast. as long as we can make you laugh, then it s comfortable. whenever you re playing dramatic roles and you re taking on a different persona, it s uncomfortable. i don t think that would be true today. but that was true 20 years ago. and the co-host of entertainment tonight kavon frazier joins us now. real pleasure to have you on. thanks for being with us. before we get to tonight s show, let s talk about the strikes in
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album starring more than ten movies over five decades, including carmen, john s 1954 years which is one of the first film with an all-black cast at all box success. it is 1957 movie, island in the sun was banned in several southern cities with the kkk threat to the movie theater due to the film interracial romance plot. off the stage, belafonte was known for his deep dedication for the civil rights movement, his close friends with the reverent, martin luther king junior. he applied the 1963 march on washington. and later he was now spoken of the important in south africa and he came up with the idea for this 1985 hit song. we are the world, brought together with the singer more than $63 million for families in ethiopia, another parts of africa. tonight, the son of harlem is being memorialized at the famous apollo theater. harry belafonte, at 96 years
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the son of caribbean parents worked so hard to pull himself out of poverty and become educated. i am the first of my family to educated. reporter: and he would become an impact on music. and sidney portier and walter mat matthau. reporter: he was dubbed the king of calypso and at the same time he won an oscar for his role in the first movie with an all black cast. he went on the make 40 albums including more than 40 movie