Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Robeson in Show Boat. Everybody talks about Sidney Poitier’s movies, and for good reason. Mr. Poitier did a fantastic job of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson are embarking on a major documentary about ...

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 ...

Jan. 23 is the anniversary of the death of Paul Robeson, one of the towering figures of Black and American history. Yet to this day, too many Americans do not know his history and his impact—not just ...

Lawrence Brown (left) and Paul Robeson perform at the Mother A.M.E. Zion Church in Harlem, N.Y., in 1941. (Sony Classical) Singing or acting on stage and film, playing football and advocating for ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The legacy of world-renowned entertainer and political activist Paul Robeson lives on in West Philadelphia, where he spent the last few years of his life. Robeson, a ...

The Paul Robeson Theater and Stuyvesant Mansion, formerly owned by the trailblazing physician Dr. Josephine English, are facing a court-ordered sale. By Daniela Gorny In a new book, the Harvard ...

Singing or acting on stage and film, playing football and advocating for civil rights made Paul Robeson a global star. He was one of the most famous Americans in the 1930s and 1940s, but McCarthyism ...