Harry Belafonte died of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, a publicist confirmed.
a popular breakthrough for an all-Black cast. The 1957 moviewas banned in several Southern cities, where theatre owners were threatened by the Ku Klux Klan because of the film’s interracial romance between Belafonte and Joan Fontaine.released in 1955, became the first officially certified million-selling album by a solo performer, and started a national infatuation with Caribbean rhythms .
“I was quite taken by the fact that [Kennedy] knew so little about the Black community,” Belafonte told NBC in 2013. “He knew the headlines of the day, but he wasn’t really anywhere nuanced or detailed on the depth of Black anguish or what our struggle’s really about.” When King was assassinated, in 1968, Belafonte helped pick out the suit he was buried in, sat next to his widow, Coretta, at the funeral, and continued to support his family, in part through an insurance policy he had taken out on King in his lifetime.“Much of my political outlook was already in place when I encountered Dr King,” Belafonte later wrote. “I was well on my way and utterly committed to the civil rights struggle. I came to him with expectations and he affirmed them.
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