Harry BELAFONTE

It seems strange to me that none of the local papers seems to have covered Harry BELAFONTE's talk last night at Memorial Hall. It was a unique opportunity to hear from a man who has so much to share with all of us. Apart from his message, what really struck me was how much better the color of the audience looked to me than most events I attend around Chapel Hill, Memorial Hall included. Why can't we work harder to achieve that level of diversity all of the time? We are all the richer for it when we do.

Related to this is the question of whether the Frey visiting lecturers, like BELAFONTE, are programmed to do all that they might while in Chapel Hill. BELAFONTE shared much last night and was said to have met with some students over dinner prior to the 7 PM event (drawing the largest group ever for a Frey Foundation visitor). What more did he do? What more might he have done? Oddly, there does not appear to be any easily-findable mention of the grant to UNC for this program on the Frey Foundation website.