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Taliban kills ISIS leader who planned Kabul Airport suicide bombing

The Taliban has killed the ISIS leader who orchestrated the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in 2021, killing 13 U.S. military officials and roughly 170 Afghans. CBS News has confirmed the Taliban is responsible for the ISIS takedown. David Martin has more on this development in what was a haunting moment in America’s haphazard Afghanistan withdrawal. Source

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From 2001: Harry Belafonte on preserving Black music

In this “CBS Sunday Morning” feature that originally aired December 9, 2001, Harry Belafonte talks with correspondent Byron Pitts about “The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music,” which explores music of the Black diaspora, from African folk music to gospel and the American blues, and which took 30 years to complete and release. Belafonte, a singer, actor and human rights activist, died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at age 96. Source

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From 2011: Harry Belafonte’s life of singing, acting and activism

Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at age 96. In this “CBS Sunday Morning” profile that originally aired on December 4, 2011, Belafonte talked with correspondent Russ Mitchell about how, during his long musical career, he’d tried to catch the social conscience of the nation as well. Source

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From 1988: Harry Belafonte, “a voice with a conscience”

Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at the age of 96. Correspondent Billy Taylor talked with Belafonte about his album, “Paradise in Gazankulu,” featuring music rooted in the culture and politics of South Africa, and about his globe-trotting work for social justice, in this report that originally aired on “CBS Sunday Morning” September 18, 1988. Source

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