Courtesy of The Root
Actor and longtime activist Harry Belafonte accepted the NAACP’s highest honor, the Spingarn Medal, in a Friday ceremony. What did the confidant to Martin Luther King Jr., and organizer of the March on Washington, have to say about the pressing issues facing today’s African-American community?
At the top of the list was America’s obsession with guns, and he demanded to know why it wasn’t translating into black outrage.
