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News of the passing of television host Jerry Springer has shocked the entertainment industry. Springer, who died at the age of 79 at his home in Chicago, is remembered for his legacy in American television, serving as the lead host of The Jerry Springer Show for 27 years. According to a family spokesperson, Jerry Springer died after developing a "brief illness." TMZ reported that it was pancreatic cancer that developed rapidly in recent months. In addition to being one of television's most iconic hosts, Jerry Springer also had a successful career in politics. After graduating with a degree in political science and earning a juris doctorate, Springer ran for Congress in 1970 and later became a Cincinnati city councilman and mayor of Cincinnati in 1977. It was in television, however, that Springer achieved his greatest success. The Jerry Springer Show debuted in 1991, but it was in 1994 when the program radically changed its format, becoming a talk show that featured poor p...

The great Harry Belafonte, known for his prowess as a singer, actor and civil rights activist, has left this world at the age of 96 at his home in New York, according to his manager, Ken Sunshine. Born in the Harlem district in 1927 to a Jamaican mother and French father from Martinique, he spent most of his childhood in Jamaica before returning to New York, which influenced his music and his fight for racial equality. With the success of the album "Calypso" in 1956, Belafonte rose to fame with songs such as "Jamaica Farewell", which became very popular in the post-World War II era of prosperity and growth of the cities. His calypso music, a genre that fused West African and French influences, catapulted him to fame and allowed him to include the iconic "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" on his album. Belafonte never shied away from controversy, starring in the 1957 film "Island in the Sun", in which he played a black politician on a fictional isl...