Saving democracy requires more of Netflix’s ‘Sunday Best’

Saving democracy requires more of Netflix’s ‘Sunday Best’

At a key moment in the now-streaming Netflix documentary Sunday Best, a young Harry Belafonte takes the stage in Ed Sullivan’s famous 1950s and ’60s television show and wows the largely white audience with a powerful song evoking the determination and struggle of oppressed people everywhere. Some 35 million people, in a country that then had only 150 million people, no internet and just three national networks, watched and listened to The Ed Sul…