Harry Belafonte, the prolific and hugely popular artist who brought Carribbean music into the American mainstream, has died.⁠ ⁠ Beyond the stage and screen, Belafonte was a fervent activist, using his unprecedented position as a Caribbean-American super-celebrity to fight for the cause of civil rights. ⁠ ⁠ A friend of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he bailed him and other movement leaders out of jail on multiple occasions, hosted him in his apartment when he traveled to New York, joined him in the 1963 March on Washington, and helped support his children after his assassination in 1968.⁠ ⁠ Read our full tribute at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📸 Hulton Archives / Getty Images⁠ ⁠ #HarryBelafonte