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While Belafonte’s cinematic output was minimal, he made an impact with each role.

The actor, singer and civil rights icon Harry Belafonte starred as a Jewish angel in the film "The Angel Levine" alongside Zero Mostel.

For one week in 1968, late night host Johnny Carson made the historic decision to give up his job on The Tonight Show and allow actor and activist Harry Belafonte to take over.

Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African American performers, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his Manhattan home. He was 96. An award-winning Broadway performer and a versatile recording and concert star of the ’50s, the lithe, […]

Washington, April 25: Harry Belafonte, a singer, actor and activist who popularised calypso music in the United States and paved the way for African-American entertainers, passed away at his Manhattan home.

Mr. Belafonte’s personal archive, acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, provides a snapshot of a life that mingled art and activism.

The New York native, who was close friends with Martin Luther King Jr., had many Jewish connections.

Legendary singer and activist Harry Belafonte who popularised calypso music in the US passed away at the age of 96.

Legendary singer and activist Harry Belafonte who popularised calypso music in the US passed away at the age of 96.

Students of Mel Brooks – who has a more important place in American comedy than we, and I suspect even he, have acknowledged – have had thin gruel so far. The emphasis has always rested on Woody Allen, the other New York-born Jewish comic and film-maker who wrote for Sid Caesar – at least since