Actor Harry Belafonte has died age 96...
From Variety
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 failure at his Manhattan home. He was 96.
An award-winning Broadway performer and a versatile recording and concert star of the ’50s, the lithe, handsome Belafonte became one of the first Black leading men in Hollywood. He later branched into production work on theatrical films and telepics.
As his career stretched into the new millennium, his commitment to social causes never took a back seat to his professional work.
An intimate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Belafonte was an important voice in the ’60s civil rights movement, and he later embarked on charitable activities on behalf of underdeveloped African nations. He was an outspoken opponent of South Africa’s apartheid policies.
Among the most honored performers of his era, Belafonte won two Grammy Awards (and the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000), a Tony and an Emmy. He also received the Motion Picture Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Governors Awards ceremony in 2014.
17 comments:
This is the real definition of an Icon and Legend. Not these ppl that have a couple of years of celebrity accomplishments. Learn it.
Can you imagine the crap he saw in his lifetime. And when he ascends to his fathers, he will attest that nothing has changed and that his people are still persecuted by the heathen. To be born and to die and to see no change in this so called humanity. R.I.P. Sir.
RIP
Mr Tally Man, Tally me Banana. RIP Sir
Mr Tally Man, Tally me Banana. RIP Sir
Say it Ain't So! R.I.P. Kind Sir.
What a man, what a life. I remember watching Carmen Jones when I was little and it's still my favorite movie. He was oh-so-fine! RIP.
He fought for the black man's right to marry white women. Civil rights for all blacks was not the agenda. Ask Dorothy Dandridge about how this man treated black women. He used and abused black women, then married white. Rest Peacefully. Bye.
Is it just me, or has the comment section of this blog been overtaken by Bitter Betty's? Stop worrying about which men don't like you and concentrate on the ones that do! You'll be much happier.
What lie did @1:17 PM tell though. A lot of these civil rights leaders were shacking up with or shaggin yt women and that's a fact. Black male civil rights leaders never stood up for Black women's rights because we got lumped in with everybody else. That's why we had to do it for ourselves. I once was blind ans now I see.
I'm with 1:17, he made great strides for civil rights but treated 🖤women poorly. Conflicted but rest easy sir.
He's from the era where A list stars married white to supposedly better their career and to " open doors" a black counterpart could not. A la Josephine Baker, Diana Ross, Lena Horne , Eartha Kitt, Grace Jones, ....Sidney Poieer, and this guy. Sammy Davis Jr married white too for his first wife. They wanted to better their careers but secretly loved black women and men in the low. That was this guy. Love him tho
7:50 ironic… the majority of your female A-list married yt too.
@7:50 is lying. Diana Ross and Josephine Baker never needed nobody to “elevate” that career. Harry CHOSE to live the way he did and abuse Black women.
Diana was doing Berry Gordy who was married. That’s why she didn’t need a white man (but she got one anyway eventually).
a legend he will be missed by many and should be spoken of in a more favorable light he put his personal safety on the line protesting and marching with MLK in the jim crowe south and elsewhere to better the lives of black people. When he could have hid out and claimed "he wasn't black if from the islands" a lot of his contemporaries I won't mention did nothing for their own people publicly.
Eartha Kitt been let the cat out of the bag with this one. He's never been for black women. His entire family is now white. His grandkids are blonde hair and blue eyed. Where's all the hoteps with the black is dominant rhetoric? Well it didn't work with Harry....
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