The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show (2020)

The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show: Directed by Yoruba Richen. With Gina Belafonte, Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb, Taylor Branch. For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.

“I am sorry, but I fail to see where and what is the difference, or what change (radically) between 1968 and TODAY; same problems, same reactions, same actions, little or no advance, personally I thing we are on down slope, a more divided society now that 50 years ago.nIdeas and opinions are not protected by first amendment any more (primarily, in social media) and censorship, auto or imposed in most cases by so call undefined u0026quot; community standardsu0026quot;.”