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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