Belafonte

The Belafonte name is synonymous with not only entertainment excellence, but social justice thanks to the family’s commitment to decades of equity work, led by its famed patriarch Harry.

He made a revisionist Western long before Quentin Tarantino got the idea, with his 1972 Buck and the Preacher, also starring his friends Belafonte and Ruby Dee.

His idols and inspirations, he says, were Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.

Musician and civil rights legend Harry Belafonte decried “our deeply Dickensian justice system.”

Waris is joined in the campaign by other familiar faces such as Malin Ackerman and Harry Belafonte.

“Harry Belafonte told me I had mercury poisoning,” Simmons confided.

The group was inducted into the hall of fame by Harry Belafonte and Spike Lee.