In Spike Lee's 2018 film BlacKkKlansman, he was fittingly cast as an elder statesman schooling young activists about the country's past. He risked his life and livelihood and set high standards for younger Black celebrities, scolding Jay Z and Beyonce for failing to meet their "social responsibilities" and mentoring Usher, Common, Danny Glover and many others. We remember notables who died in 2023, including Daniel Ellsberg, Cormac McCarthy, Treat Williams and Silvio Berlusconi. He worked closely with his friend and generational peer the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, often intervening on his behalf with both politicians and fellow entertainers and helping him financially. Despite persistently high rates of suicide, research, treatment, and prevention strategies might reduce deaths. Few kept up with his time and commitment and none his stature as a meeting point among Hollywood, Washington and the civil rights movement.īelafonte not only participated in protest marches and benefit concerts, but helped organise and raise support for them. Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who killed three people and injured 23 in a bombing spree stretching from 1978 to 1995, died by suicide at a federal prison medical. In 2009, suicide was ranked the 10 th leading cause of death in the US, taking the lives of 12.0 of every 100,000 individuals in the US ( Kochanek, Xu, Murphy, Miniño, & Kung, 2011 ). With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer many still know him for his signature hit Banana Boat Song (Day-O), and its call of "Day-O! Daaaaay-O".īut he forged a greater legacy once he scaled back his performing career in the 1960s and lived out his hero Paul Robeson's decree that artists are "gatekeepers of truth".īelafonte stands as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist. She has also struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts following her difficult 1997 divorce from basketball star David Justice. He was 96.īelafonte died on Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said Ken Sunshine, of public relations firm Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis. Halle Berry is best known as an actress for iconic films like Monster’s Ball, Catwoman, Cloud Atlas and Die Another Day. Firearms have the highest case fatality, and drug/overdose ingestion and cutting have the lowest. Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died.
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