Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting Day O in his 1950s hit song Banana Boat before turning to political activism, died at 96. Belafonte died of congestive heart failure at his home in New York on Tuesday with his wife Pamela by his side, the firm of his longtime spokesperson Ken Sunshine said in a statement. As a black leading man who explored racial themes in 1950s movies, Belafonte would later move on to work with his friend Martin Luther King Jr during the US civil rights movement in the early 1960s....