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WHEN HARRY Belafonte, who died this week at 96, published his memoir in 2011, he began his story not with music but with a tale of heroic activism. It was 1964. The American civil rights movement was in full swing. But three student volunteers, two Caucasian and one African American, had gone missing in Mississippi. ....
With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer ....
We are very saddened to share the news of the death of Harry Belafonte (1927-2023). Here are excerpts from an article by Chris Morris for Variety: 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… ....