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 ...

The King Of Calypso is about as frivolous and inappropriate a moniker for Harry Belafonte as possible. With the calypso and hits like “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” in the Fifties, he certainly ...

Entertainers, lawmakers, clergy, academics and titans of industry celebrated the life of Harry Belafonte on Tuesday, remembering the "uncompromising black man" who "made America better." Belafonte ...

The late Union entertainment columnist Don Freeman first saw Harry Belafonte perform in 1952 on a bill with comedian Henny Youngman at the Thunderbird hotel in Las Vegas. Belafonte, the activist and ...

Harry Belafonte died Tuesday at the age of 96. NPR's Michel Martin talks to publisher and author Lavaille Lavette about the legacy of the singer, actor and civil rights activist. Tributes continue for ...

For a generation of us, that opening lilt of a Jamaican folk song is inextricably tied to Harry Belafonte as he introduced white America to calypso music. The Harlem-born Belafonte would become the ...

NEW YORK-- Late actor and civil rights icon Harry Belafonte was honored by the National Action Network on Saturday morning. Belafonte passed away Tuesday at the age of 96. He was praised for his ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Harry Belafonte, the famous singer, actor, producer and civil rights activist, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure. He was 96. We're going to listen back to ...

Cool and charismatic, Belafonte channeled his stardom into activism. He was a true people person, who knew how to reach, teach and challenge us. By Wesley Morris Of the many (many) job titles you ...

But history, as it often does, had other ideas for Belafonte, who died April 25 at 96, having lived a long, full life as both entertainer and activist. That was the role history had chosen for him.

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Perry and Belafonte were the final two late actors honored in the touching 'In Memoriam' segment. Matthew Perry was among the list of unforgettable actors honored at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild ...