Harry Belafonte News

Dear David: I've been thinking about this one on and off for years. It was a movie, a made-for-television movie, or maybe even a 'Twilight Zone' episode.

It was both a walk down memory lane and a call to action when singer, actor, civil rights activist and international humanitarian Harry Belafonte spoke at St.

Harry Belafonte became an international sensation in the 1950s taking the popularity of Calypso music up with him.

When I was growing up the Grammys meant less than zero to me and my friends. We paid them no attention whatsoever.

It's only fitting that Harry Belafonte's big, bountiful life has inspired an expansive, understandably hagiographic documentary, "Sing Your Song." Silky voiced and snake hipped, with a supernova smile that dazzled Americans and helped demolish racial prejudices, he remains perhaps best known for his lilting version of the Caribbean folk tune "The ... (more)

Yes, as a final question, students who gathered at a local high school here asked actor, singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte to sing a few bars of the song that made him a household name: "Day-O ." So the performer who believes it's every citizen's duty to make a difference delighted the young audience by singing some of his iconic ... (more)

It's Martin Luther King Day, and Harry Belafonte - who was a close friend of the civil rights leader - is on the phone.

Civil rights activist and singer Harry Belafonte visited Charlottesville High School Tuesday to speak with students about his life experiences.

To many students in Rudder Theatre on Thursday, too young to remember the Civil Rights era, Harry Belafonte may have been best known for singing The Banana Boat Song.

It's only fitting that Harry Belafonte's big, bountiful life has inspired an expansive, understandably hagiographic documentary, "Sing Your Song." Silky voiced and snake hipped, with a supernova smile that dazzled Americans and helped demolish racial prejudices, he remains perhaps best known for his lilting version of the Caribbean folk tune "The ... (more)