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Belafonte next starred in a major film in the mid-1990s, appearing with John Travolta in the race-reverse drama White Man's Burden (1995); [69] and in Robert Altman's jazz age drama Kansas City (1996), the latter of which garnered him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. [70]
Apr 25, 2023 · He was a passionate civil rights activist who struggled to end segregation and a close confidant of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. He was also the star of films that challenged...
Apr 25, 2023 · Often dubbed the King Of Calypso, Belafonte was born in Harlem, New York, in 1927, the son of poor Caribbean immigrants. A high school drop out, he joined the Navy during the Second World...
Apr 25, 2023 · Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights...
Apr 25, 2023 · He began as a jazz singer, backed by no less than bebop titans Charlie Parker and Max Roach, but he found fame singing folk songs he had learned from the archives of the Library of Congress.
- Gary Susman
Apr 26, 2023 · In Focus. Harry Belafonte, the singer, actor, and activist, passed away yesterday at the age of 96. Belafonte was celebrated not only as a gifted performer but as a trailblazer in the...
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Apr 25, 2023 · Iconic actor, musician, and lifelong activist Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. The cause, per his longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine, was congestive heart failure. Belafonte’s singing...
