The life of the legendary Black singer, star, and activist is depicted in a new comic by Sharon Rudahl, edited by Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware. Paul Robeson was born in 1898, the son of a pastor who ...
In the aftermath of the New York Times’s Project 1619 that appeared in the August 2019 Sunday Magazine section, there have been howls of protest over Nikole Hannah-Jones’s claim that “anti-black ...
The Paul Robeson House and Museum is back in business. The museum and educational institution, located in twin brick homes on a corner in West Philly’s Walnut Hill neighborhood, has been closed to the ...
From star athlete and actor to eventually becoming blacklisted, Paul Robeson was one of the most well known names in song during the first half of the twentieth century. From his bass baritone vocals ...
Singer Paul Robeson and his wife, Eslanda, are shown at they arrived at Southampton, England, July 10, 1939. Credit: AP file Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Part of the legacy of racism and white ...
The Paul Robeson has been undergoing major renovations over the past several months, and is now ready to reopen on Friday, October 10.
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 was and remains the most marvellous human being I have ever known or seen. Yet this man was in his time feared by the great majority of white people in the United States, and today, ...
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 ...
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 ...