Harry Belafonte, America’s first black matinee idol, leveraged his fame for social change, as he discussed with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro of New York Magazine to mark the publication of his new memoir, My Song. In 1956, a Harlem-bred child of Caribbean immigrants released the first million-selling LP in history Harry Belafonte was bigger than Elvis. But where…
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On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, Downtown Television held the first screening of a documentary directed by Americans entitled “Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces”.
The Paris Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, signed 50 years ago, came as a result of stressful and protracted negotiations and held extreme importance, said activist Cora Weiss, one of the leaders of the anti-Vietnam-war movement then.