The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished ...

Paul Robeson was a superstar of the stage and screen, a talented football player and a music hitmaker. Then came a dramatic ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somerville officials are asking for proposals to honor one of the borough’s most famous residents with a downtown statue. The ...

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, ...

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 ...

Paul Robeson stars former Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young as Robeson. Avery Hammonds directs. With Robeson's signature "Ol' Man River," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and other spirituals and ...

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 ...

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 ...