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 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 ...

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 ...

Born in Princeton Township on April 9, 1898, Paul Leroy Robeson would have been 125 years old on Sunday. A nationally recognized tackle and end football player and bass-baritone singer, Robeson rose ...

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, ...

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 ...

Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for essential news each day, and our contests and promotions list for special offers and giveaways. Singer Paul ...

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 ...

Two ghosts loom over Martin Duberman's new memoir, "The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some 1976-1988" (Duke University Press), neither of them named in the lengthy subtitle. One ...