The Woman’s City Club
2026 National Speaker Forum and Fundraiser
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 7:00PM
Gina Belafonte
ARTS AND ACTIVISM: THE BELAFONTE LEGACY.
Memorial Hall
1225 Elm Street, Cincinnati , OH 45202
Phone: (513) 977.8838
Gina Belafonte (born New York City, September 8, 1961) is an American actress, film and stage producer, and civil rights activist. The youngest daughter of activist, dancer, Julie Belafonte and singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte,[1] she has appeared in such films as Bright Lights, Big City, Tokyo Pop (both 1988), and BlacKkKlansman (2018). As an artist Gina has also produced several international and critically acclaimed documentaries that have been seen on HBO, PBS, and Prime, some of which include Sing Your Song, A Survivor's Guide To Prison, and The March. Sing Your Song is a 2011 documentary film about her father.
She co-founded The Gathering for Justice, a nonprofit organization whose aim is to end child incarceration and eliminate the eliminate racial disparities in the criminal justice system. She is also the CEO of Sankofa.org, a nonprofit Social Justice impact production company, founded by her father. Through art, culture, and media, Sankofa.org addresses injustice and creates change at multiple levels. Ms Belafonte believes with her father that art communicates messages of hope and is a powerful way to convey messages across cultural barriers that so often divide us.
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