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I Don't Think We Talk Enough About Paul Robeson (And What He Brought To The Film Industry)
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 7 months agoPaul Robeson in Show Boat. Everybody talks about Sidney Poitier’s movies, and for good reason. Mr....
Smeared, banned, exiled: Paul Robeson finally gets Philadelphia street in his name
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoVernoca Michael always loved trying to outrun the FBI. After buying herself a Camaro, she got pretty...
Paul Robeson House new reading room pays tribute to his wife
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA newly created reading room at the Paul Robeson House and Museum in West Philadelphia pays tribute...
Paul Robeson is getting a statue in Somerville: 'One of the 10 most important Black men'
Home News Tribune | My Central Jersey via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSomerville 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 ...
‘Man of the People’ celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoFame 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 ...
Gordon Lightfoot, John Prine Among Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame’s Inaugural Class of Inductees:...
Billboard via Yahoo News· 9 months agoGordon Lightfoot, who died on May 1, and John Prine, who died in 2020, are among the artists in the...
7 Famous Black Figures That Are Long Overdue For Their Own Biopic
CinemaBlend via Yahoo News· 5 months agoOprah Winfrey speaks with Amanda Gorman in “The Oprah Conversation,” now streaming on Apple TV+. We...
What would Martin Luther King, Jr. think of America 56 years after his assassination?
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 3 months ago“All of the healers have been killed or betrayed.” – Gil Scott-Heron, “Winter in America” By 1968,...
Ol' Man River at the mercy of fate. See why
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 11 months agoOl’ Man River hasn’t done a very good job lately of just keeping on rolling along. The Mississippi River, memorialized by Oscar Hammerstein’s 1927...
Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHarry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and...