Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer with a 'rebel heart,' dies at 96

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Harry Belafonte, the dashing singer, actor and activist who became an indispensable supporter of the civil rights movement, has died, his publicist Ken Sunshine told CNN. A voracious reader with a burning disdain for injustice, Belafonte’s political consciousness was shaped by the experience of growing up as the impoverished son of a poor Jamaican mother who worked as a domestic servant. “What I’ve always been looking for: Where resides the rebel heart?” Belafonte replied

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