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Harry Belafonte, entertainer and civil rights activist, dies at 96-by Hillel Italie<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Theage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

New York:<\/strong>\u00a0Harry 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 96.<\/span><\/p>\n

Belafonte died on Tuesday (US time) of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said publicist Ken Sunshine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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. Many still know him for his signature hit\u00a0Banana Boat Song (Day-O)<\/em>, and its call of \u201cDay-O! Daaaaay-O.\u201d But he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson\u2019s decree that artists are \u201cgatekeepers of truth\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Belafonte stands as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist. Few kept up with his time and commitment and none his stature as a meeting point among Hollywood, Washington and the civil rights movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Belafonte not only participated in protest marches and benefit concerts, but helped organise and raise support for them. He worked closely with his friend and generational peer, the Reverend Martin Luther King jr, often intervening on his behalf with both politicians and fellow entertainers and helping him financially. He risked his life and livelihood and set high standards for younger black celebrities, scolding Jay-Z and Beyonce for failing to meet their \u201csocial responsibilities\u201d, and mentoring Usher, Common, Danny Glover and many others. In Spike Lee\u2019s 2018 film\u00a0BlacKkKlansman,<\/em>\u00a0he was fittingly cast as an elder statesman schooling young activists about the country\u2019s past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Belafonte\u2019s friend, civil rights leader Andrew Young, would note that Belafonte was the rare person to grow more radical with age. He was ever engaged and unyielding, willing to take on Southern segregationists, Northern liberals, the billionaire Koch brothers and the country\u2019s first black president, Barack Obama, whom Belafonte would remember asking to cut him \u201csome slack\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Belafonte addresses the \u201cOne Nation Working Together\u201d rally at the Lincoln Memorial to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

Belafonte responded, \u201cWhat makes you think that\u2019s not what I\u2019ve been doing?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Belafonte had been a major artist since the 1950s. He won a Tony Award in 1954 for his starring role in John Murray Anderson\u2019s\u00a0Almanac<\/em>\u00a0and five years later became the first black performer to win an Emmy for the TV special\u00a0Tonight with Harry Belafonte<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1954, he co-starred with Dorothy Dandridge in the Otto Preminger-directed musical\u00a0Carmen Jones,<\/em>\u00a0a popular breakthrough for an all-black cast. The 1957 movie\u00a0Island in the Sun<\/em>\u00a0was banned in several Southern cities, where theatre owners were threatened by the Ku Klux Klan because of the film\u2019s interracial romance between Belafonte and Joan Fontaine.<\/span><\/p>\n

His\u00a0Calypso,<\/em>\u00a0released in 1955, became the first officially certified million-selling album by a solo performer, and started a national infatuation with Caribbean rhythms (Belafonte was nicknamed, reluctantly, the \u201cKing of Calypso\u201d). Admirers of Belafonte included a young Bob Dylan, who debuted on record in the early \u201960s by playing harmonica on Belafonte\u2019s\u00a0Midnight Special.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHarry was the best balladeer in the land and everybody knew it,\u201d Dylan later wrote. \u201cHarry was that rare type of character that radiates greatness, and you hope that some of it rubs off on you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Belafonte befriended King in the spring of 1956 after the young civil rights leader called and asked for a meeting. They spoke for hours, and Belafonte would remember feeling King raised him to the \u201chigher plane of social protest\u201d. Then at the peak of his singing career, Belafonte was soon producing a benefit concert for the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that helped make King a national figure. By the early 1960s, he had decided to make civil rights his priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was having almost daily talks with Martin,\u201d Belafonte wrote in his memoir\u00a0My Song,<\/em>\u00a0published in 2011. \u201cI realised that the movement was more important than anything else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Kennedys were among the first politicians to seek his opinions, which he willingly shared. John F Kennedy, at a time when black voters were as likely to support Republicans as they would Democrats, was so anxious for his support that during the 1960 election he visited Belafonte at his Manhattan home. Belafonte explained King\u2019s importance and arranged for King and Kennedy to meet.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was quite taken by the fact that [Kennedy] knew so little about the black community,\u201d Belafonte told NBC in 2013. \u201cHe knew the headlines of the day, but he wasn\u2019t really anywhere nuanced or detailed on the depth of black anguish or what our struggle\u2019s really about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Belafonte would often criticise the Kennedys for their reluctance to challenge the Southern segregationists who were then a substantial part of the Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1963, Belafonte was deeply involved with the historic March on Washington. He recruited his close friend Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman and other celebrities and persuaded the left-wing Marlon Brando to co-chair the Hollywood delegation with the more conservative Charlton Heston, a pairing designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience. In 1964, he and Poitier personally delivered tens of thousands of dollar to activists in Mississippi after three \u201cFreedom Summer\u201d volunteers were murdered \u2013 the two celebrities were chased by car at one point by members of the KKK. The following year, he brought in Tony Bennett, Joan Baez and other singers to perform for the marchers in Selma, Alabama.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Belafonte at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York in 1956.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMuch of my political outlook was already in place when I encountered Dr King,\u201d Belafonte later wrote. \u201cI was well on my way and utterly committed to the civil rights struggle. I came to him with expectations and he affirmed them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

King\u2019s death left Belafonte isolated from the civil rights community. He was turned off by the separatist beliefs of Stokely Carmichael and other \u201cBlack Power\u201d activists and had little chemistry with King\u2019s designated successor, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy. But the entertainer\u2019s causes extended well beyond the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He helped introduce South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba to American audiences, the two winning a Grammy in 1964 for the concert record\u00a0An Evening With Belafonte\/Makeba.<\/em>\u00a0He co-ordinated Nelson Mandela\u2019s first visit to the US since being released from prison in 1990. A few years earlier, he had initiated the all-star, million-selling\u00a0We Are the World<\/em>\u00a0recording, the Grammy-winning charity song for famine relief in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n

Belafonte\u2019s early life and career paralleled those of Poitier, who died in 2022. Both spent part of their childhoods in the Caribbean and ended up in New York. Both served in the military during World War II, acted in the American Negro Theatre and then broke into film. Poitier shared his belief in civil rights, but still dedicated much of his time to acting, a source of some tension between them. While Poitier had a sustained and historic run in the 1960s as a leading man and box office success, Belafonte grew tired of acting and turned down parts he regarded as \u201cneutered\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his memoir, he chastised Poitier for a \u201cradical breach\u201d by backing out on a commitment to star as Mandela in a TV miniseries Belafonte had conceived, then agreeing to play Mandela for a rival production. He became so estranged from King\u2019s widow and children that he was not asked to speak at her funeral. He later sued three of King\u2019s children over control of some of the civil rights leader\u2019s personal papers, and would allege that the family was preoccupied with \u201cselling trinkets and memorabilia\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He made news years earlier when he compared Colin Powell, the first black secretary of state, to a slave \u201cpermitted to come into the house of the master\u201d for his service in the George W Bush administration. He was in Washington in January 2009 as Obama was inaugurated, officiating along with Baez and others at a gala called the Inaugural Peace Ball. But Belafonte would later criticise Obama for failing to live up to his promise and lacking \u201cfundamental empathy with the dispossessed, be they white or black\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was married three times, most recently to photographer Pamela Frank, and had four children. Three of them \u2013 Shari, David and Gina \u2013 became actors. He is also survived by two stepchildren and eight grandchildre<\/span>n.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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