
Auction to Honor Harry Belafonte’s Legacy
February 10, 2025
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte will be the focus of an auction featuring nearly 400 artifacts from his seven-decade career, Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies announced today. The auction, titled “Harry Belafonte: A Man of Action,” will take place March 6 in Los Angeles and online at juliensauctions.com. Belafonte, who rose to fame as a calypso singer in the 1950s, starred in films such as “Carmen Jones,” “Island in the Sun” and “Odds Against Tomorrow” and became heavily involved in the civil rights movement, died from congestive heart failure on April 25, 2023, at age