{"id":465,"date":"2012-05-15T06:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackworldcinema.net\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:34:51","slug":"may-2nd-3rd-opening-may-4-harry-belafonte-sing-your-song-ice-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackworldcinema.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/may-2nd-3rd-opening-may-4-harry-belafonte-sing-your-song-ice-theaters\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY 2nd & 3rd, Opening May 4: Harry Belafonte: SING YOUR SONG @ ICE Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"May<\/a>Sing You Song, 2011, USA<\/p>\n

Wed, May 2, 7 pm
\nICE Theaters Lawndale
\n3330 W Roosevelt Road
\nAdm: $5.00<\/p>\n

Thursday, May 3, 7pm
\nICE Theaters Chatham
\n210 W 87th St
\nAdm: $5.00<\/p>\n

From Harlem to Mississippi to Africa and South Central Los Angeles, Sing Your Song takes us on a journey through Harry Belafonte\u2019s life, work and most of all, his conscience, as it inspires us all to action!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sing Your Song is an up close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Told from Harry\u2019s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.<\/p>\n

From there the film follows Belafonte\u2019s rise from the jazz and folk clubs of Greenwich Village and Harlem to his emergence as a star. However, even as a superstar, the life of a black man in 1960s America was far from easy and Belafonte was confronted with the same Jim Crow laws and prejudices that every other black man, woman and child in America was facing.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the film presents a brief look at the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of an insider, someone who despite his high profile, wasn\u2019t afraid to spend time in the trenches.
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