In a month marked by an unusual number of outstanding documentaries on aspects of African-American history, PBS’ “Paul Robeson: Here I Stand” seems like a near-perfect grand finale. The “American ...

As a theatrical subject, Paul Robeson is a daunting challenge, but that doesn’t stop people from trying. “The Tallest Tree in the Forest,” Daniel Beaty’s ambitious, entertaining and flawed one-man ...

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 ...

Well, he tells us: as a young man he was transporting the libraries of a lot of old communists to a bookshop and was intrigued by how many of the books were by or about Robeson. All of which provokes ...

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 ...

Australian journalist Jeff Sparrow's long journey into the mysteries of Paul Robeson, the now nearly forgotten African-American entertainer and controversial citizen, is not a standard biography.

Over the course of his life Paul Robeson went from being a popular international cinema star, renowned for his role in the musical Show Boat singing Ol' Man River, to being an outspoken civil rights ...

Note: This is the seventh installment of WCBS 880's Black History Month series. For other articles, click here. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Eslanda Robeson -- the wife of singer, actor, lawyer and civil ...