Harry Belafonte was the first solo artist to sell a million copies of an LP, even beating Elvis Presley. His third studio album, Calypso, in 1956, made him the most popular performer in America full stop with an audience that was predominantly white. He produced a kind of smooth cocktail of it that sounded traditional to the ears of the uninitiated but was actually his own novel fusion. Will His Love Be Like His Run refers to the intoxication of both love and the Caribbean dark spirit.
Climate change is stirring up internecine conflicts, criminality is making them longer, and cross-border contagion is complicating matters further. We explain why civil wars are so hard to resolve. Japanese carmakers’ dominance of the automobile industry could be at risk if they don’t catch up in the race for EVs. And, a tribute to musician and civil-rights campaigner, Harry Belafonte.
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