![]() ![]() I won't forget.Rest well, sir."Įarlier that morning, Belafonte's longtime spokesman announced that Belafonte, 96, had died at his Manhattan home from congestive heart failure.īelafonte is remembered as a barriers-breaking figure who rose to stardom at a time when racial discrimination and segregation were still widespread in the U.S. "Here he is mourning with my mother at the funeral service for my father at Morehouse College. In fact, he paid for the babysitter for me and my siblings," Bernice tweeted on Tuesday alongside a picture of Belafonte at her father's 1968 funeral. "When I was a child, #HarryBelafonte showed up for my family in very compassionate ways. ![]() ![]() Bernice King, the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., eulogized singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on social media this week, reflecting on the close relationship that he had with her family and particularly her father. ![]()
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