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"Lift Every Voice": Potential Senate Hopeful Cory Booker Praises Harry Belafonte's Life of Activism

1,266 views · Published 18 February 2013 · 17:28 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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DemocracyNow.org - Just hours after New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg announced he would not seek re-election, Newark Mayor Cory Booker introduced Harry Belafonte at an NAACP function in New York. While he hasn't officially launched a campaign, Booker has filed a statement of organization with the Federal Election Commission, a legal requirement to begin fundraising for the 2014 race. In his remarks Booker praised Belafonte's lifelong commitment to civil rights and justice. "We are losing black boys at a rate that is alarming. How could we go from being a people in chains to now large percentages of our men are in shackles in prison in the land of the free," Booker said. "We have a state like New Jersey where 65 percent of our prison population is black when only 13 percent of our state is black. There is a problem and Harry Belafonte wants to talk about it."

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