In May 1963, as civil rights demonstrations rocked the city of Birmingham, Alabama, Harry Belafonte was at a cocktail party in Manhattan, scolding the then-attorney general of the United States. “You ...

I never met Harry Belafonte but for the last three years I’ve thought about him every day. Over those years, I researched and wrote a book on Project Confrontation, the campaign in the spring of 1963 ...

Writer Jeff Sharlet remembers the life and legacy of Harry Belafonte. While writing a profile on the actor and singer, he says he came to understand Belafonte's life as "part of the long struggle." ...