NEW YORK -- Legendary singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. Also an actor, producer and EGOT winner, Belafonte died Tuesday morning of congestive heart failure at ...

Iconic singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte died on April 25, 2023, at 96 years old, leaving behind his wife of 15 years and four adult children. According to reps for the late musician, ...

The Jamaican-American singer-songwriter and activist became the first Black person to win an Emmy Award in 1960 Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Harry Belafonte, the famed Black entertainer and activist whose voice adorns several of the mid-20th century's most famous recordings, died of heart failure on April 25 in New York. He turned 96 in ...

Prolific artist and fearless civil rights activist, Harry Belafonte never minced words when it came to challenging perceptions of race, social justice and pushing humanity to “make the world a little ...

Harry Belafonte, the singer who became one of the first Black leading men in Hollywood and later a major voice in the civil rights movement, died Tuesday at age 96. Belafonte’s extraordinary career ...

I never met Harry Belafonte but for the last three years I’ve thought about him every day. Over those years, I researched and wrote a book on Project Confrontation, the campaign in the spring of 1963 ...

Belafonte "utilized every aspect of his immeasurable talent, applying it specifically to the plight of other human beings and their civil rights," she said Jamie Lee Curtis is reflecting on the ...

NEW YORK — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was ...