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Opinion: Harry Belafonte's voice will live on

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember singer and activist Harry Belafonte, who died this week at the age of 96.
10th August 1958: American calypso singer and actor Harry Belafonte in concert at the Kilburn National Ballroom, London.

I spent a couple of years of my childhood living with my cousins, and the voice of Harry Belafonte. Or so it seemed. We had one side or the other of his two-record album "Belafonte at Carnegie Hall" playing before we

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