Harry Belafonte Blended Music And Politics To Make Lasting Social Change
Harry Belafonte died at the age of 96. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello In May 1963, as civil rights demonstrations rocked the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Harry Belafonte was at a cocktail party in Manhattan, scolding the then-attorney general of the United States. “You may think you’re doing enough,” he recalled telling Robert F. Kennedy, “but you…