St. Louis native, scholar and activist Gerald Horne was recently honored in Paris, France on the occasion of the launching of the French translation of his 2016 biography “Paul Robeson: the Artist as ...

Fame fades. Names and accomplishments, no matter how large and striking, can become buried in history’s dust, reduced to but a whisper, if that, across the years. “Paul Robeson is an under-appreciated ...

Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was an American concert bass-baritone, athlete, actor and political activist. Born in Princeton, New Jersey he was educated at Rutgers College and ...

Photo of American actor and singer Paul Robeson (1898-1976) performing circa 1950. GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images Heroic dissidents are demonized, marginalized, physically and psychologically ...

As a successful actor, athlete, singer and activist, Paul Robeson‘s impact on American culture is profound. At the height of his popularity, he was a cultural leader in the war against fascism abroad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Communist, fellow traveler, red, pinko, commie, useful idiot — the searing epithets of the Cold War have lost their sting but in ...

Somerville officials are asking for proposals to honor one of the borough’s most famous residents with a downtown statue. The Downtown Somerville Alliance (DSA), in partnership with Somerset County ...

The film tells about a previously unknown episode of Paul Robeson’s biography — a secret conversation in 1949 in a room at the Moscow Hotel with the Jewish poet Itzik Feffer, who told Robeson the ...

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Davóne Tines plays Paul Robeson in a solo show on Little Island that weaves together the words and music of this American hero to tell his story. By Oussama Zahr An interracial soirée that included ...