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    How Harry Belafonte Transformed American Music

    The late artist and activist showed how popular songs could be both the soundtrack to and a tool of the struggle for freedom.
    by Jason Heller Apr 26, 2023 2 minutes
    Source: Bob Henriques / Magnum

    Updated at 12:31 p.m. ET on April 26, 2023

    In 1956, something totally unprecedented happened in America: A Black artist topped the top-albums chart, not just once but for 31 consecutive weeks. That artist was Harry Belafonte, and the album was his third, . The musician, actor, and civil-rights champion died yesterday at age 96 at his home in the Upper West Side, not far

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