For Harry Belafonte, a catchy calypso tune created the initial soundtrack for a lifetime of activism, civil rights and service that would stretch six decades. And as unlikely as his meteoric rise to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarafina Belafonte performed this week at New York’s Sony Hall with her grandfather, the late singer and civil rights activist ...

Santa Monica Public Library and the Martin Luther King Jr. Westside Coalition invite you to celebrate the legacy of singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte with a screening of the ...

Harry Belafonte's studied drama at Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop, where a singing role led to night-club engagements and a recording contract as a pop singer. In 1950 he became a folksinger, ...

Sing St. John choirs brought the musical legacy of Harry Belafonte to life Saturday evening in Cruz Bay’s Franklin Powell Park. “Harry Belafonte worked tirelessly to alleviate oppression in the world, ...

Produced by his youngest daughter, Gina, this profile of Harry Belafonte, foregrounding the 84-year-old actor and singer’s political activism, is a moving if occasionally wearying hagiography. Not ...

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is the author of the books Island People, Names of New York and a forthcoming book on Harry Belafonte, part of Penguin Press' Significations series edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...