Tag: Criminal Justice

NAACP Award Speech

Posted on February 17, 2014

In 2013, Harry Belafonte was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP. The Spingarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American. In his acceptance speech, Harry Belafonte call upon all artists to use their art and their positions as celebrities to address many of the unfairness and discrimination leveled at the black community. Belafonte specifically focuses on gun and criminal justice issues.

 

Danny Glover On “The House I Live In” And The War On Drugs

Posted on February 18, 2013

In this interview, Danny Glover talks about the documentary “The House I Live In” and the broader societal issues that are addressed in the documentary about the war on drugs that Glover summarizes with the statement: “The war on drugs is not a war on drugs itself, it is a war on people.”