Belafonte is gone, Poitier went before him. They were the titans who uplifted our world | Candace Allen

For us in the African diaspora, they were pioneers who challenged and changed attitudes towards Black men. We were so proud of them

The ping today of a WhatsApp message and my heart wrenching at the news. Harry Belafonte. Gone.

Not that he hadn’t earned his rest at 96, but this was an incandescent beacon of most everything that can be good and right in a man – intelligence, closely considered and courageous political activism, guided by an unwavering moral compass that paused for neither breath nor age, encased in a package of heart-stopping beauty and grace.

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