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Reaction is pouring in from civil rights leaders and the entertainment world following the death of Harry Belafonte

Belafonte was active in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s

Harry Belafonte, the superstar entertainer who introduced a Caribbean flair to mainstream US music and became well known for his deep personal investment in civil rights, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 96.

Emmy, Tony and Grammy winner and civil rights icon was 96

Harry Belafonte has died at age 96

Mr. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, a representative said.

Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failure

As his country overtakes China as the world’s most populous, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is escalating its attack on civil rights

The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.

When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other protests that took place in the South. In “Washington State Rising,” Marc Arsell Robinson, assistant professor of African American history at California State University, San Bernardino, takes a look at the civil…

A young white woman and her Black housekeeper flee across the American south amid the historic struggle, buoyed by astonishingly powerful music