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The outstanding Jamaica-born artist, Civil Rights activist and internationalist, Harry Belafonte, died from congestive heart failure at age 96, a week ago, on
By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier | Word In Black - Bryant, the white woman whose lies led to the brutal 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, died at age 88 without ever being held accountable.
No other entertainer immersed themselves so deeply in the Civil Rights Movement; no other activist occupied a niche at so many levels of American politics. If he was a powerful voice for justice, it was because he leveraged his celebrity.