Becoming Belafonte

This biography of the singer, actor, and fearless anti-racism activist is “so engaging that readers will crave a sequel” ( Kirkus Reviews ). A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on the American scene in the decades following World War II—fr