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Harry Belafonte's 1968 Takeover of "The Tonight Show"
In 1968, Harry Belafonte took over as guest host for Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show" for one week. For the first time ever, Belafonte brought the beauty and the brilliance of Black America into American homes. A new documentary tells the story of this forgotten week of transformative television. Its director, Yoruba Richen, joins the show.
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Boris Bondarev; Sen. Elissa Slotkin; Bernadette Atuahene
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Nick Paton Walsh; Andrea Kendall Taylor; Mohammad Mustafa; Loretta Ross
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Volodymyr Zelensky; Sen. Chris Coons; Mark Rutte; Bill Gates
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Vali Nasr and Elliot Abrams; Fernanda Torres and Walter Salles; Dr. Dhruv Khullar
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Thandiwe Mhlambi; James Kunder; Robert Lighthizer; Joe Wright
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Richard Haass; Jeremy Strong; Sam Fuentes and Kim A. Snyder
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Jeremy Diamond; Hossam Zaki; Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel; Noah Feldman; Mohammad Rasoulof
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Andy Beshear; Shiori Ito; Marietje Schaake
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Matthew Bartlett; Mikey Madison; Jonathan Chait
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Tom Fletcher; Jennifer Mittelstadt; Gillian Metzger