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Farewell to a Beloved Elder: Activists Reflect on Belafonte

By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Carmen Berkley, a strategist with a Seattle-based foundation advocating equity and racial justice, remembers meeting Harry Belafonte a decade ago when she was a youth activist. She’d gone to Florida to attend a sit-in protest that other young Black activists had staged at the Capitol in Tallahassee […]

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