Despite only barely having majority support in the U.S. One challenge for Biden is that his presidency has arguably been quite successful - his wins just haven’t been enough to save his approval rating. And he’s pretty much tied with Trump in terms of approval: He hasn’t been a bad President (certainly far, far better than Trump!) but he hasn’t been able to convert his acomplishments into figures that would guarantee him re-electon. Here’s Biden’s disapproval rating from FiveThirtyEight, and it’s pretty much beenin the dumper since February of last year. “When I ran for president four years ago,” he added, “I said we were in a battle for the soul of America. All while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. Dictating what health care decisions women can make, banning books and telling people who they can love. “Cutting Social Security that you’ve paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy. Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan to describe the former president’s allies.
“Around the country, MAGA extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms,” Mr. King’s famous Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights in 1965. He continued to perform into the 21st century, and to appear in movies as well (although he had two long hiatuses from the screen), but his primary focus from the late 1950s on was civil rights.īoth Belafonte and Tony Bennett participated in Dr. Belafonte’s priority, and after a while neither was making music. Belafonte, who became the first bona fide Black matinee idol.īut making movies was never Mr.
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His movie stardom was short-lived, though, and it was his friendly rival Sidney Poitier, not Mr. Belafonte soon became the first Black actor to achieve major success in Hollywood as a leading man. Success as a singer led to movie offers, and Mr. Coming just before the breakthrough of Elvis Presley, it was said to be the first album by a single artist to sell more than a million copies. But none had made as much of a splash as he did, and for a few years no one in music, Black or white, was bigger.īorn in Harlem to West Indian immigrants, he almost single-handedly ignited a craze for Caribbean music with hit records like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” and “Jamaica Farewell.” His album “Calypso,” which included both those songs, reached the top of the Billboard album chart shortly after its release in 1956 and stayed there for 31 weeks. He was not the first Black entertainer to transcend racial boundaries Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and others had achieved stardom before him. Belafonte’s ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. The cause was congestive heart failure, said Ken Sunshine, his longtime spokesman.Īt a time when segregation was still widespread and Black faces were still a rarity on screens large and small, Mr. Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was a singer, an actor, and a civil rights activist, though I first became acquainted with him from my parents’ LP album of his calypso songs, which included this classic (“a beautiful bunch of ripe banana/hides the deadly black tarantula” is not one of music’s better rhymes). *Obituaries first: The great Harry Belafonte has died at the ripe old age of 96. Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this by consulting the April 26 Wikipedia page. It’s also Audubon Day (he was born on this day in 1785), Hug an Australian Day, National Help a Horse Day, and World Intellectual Property Day (Doing it always makes me nervous: it has to come out looking perfect.) I should be okay by Monday, but I’ll start “Readers’ Wildlife” as soon as I can. I’m still a bit under the weather, and will probably have to put off a podcast I was scheduled to do Friday. The Catholic Review says these are good for Lent! The only acceptable form is the big soft German-style pretzels, liberally dipped into mustard and preferably accompanied with a liter of beer. It’s Wednesday, a Hump Day (or “კეხის დღე” in Georgian), April 26, 2023, and National Pretzel Day.
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