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

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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Bass-baritone Paul Robeson was one of the most popular figures of the 20th century, and also one of the most controversial. He died in 1976 at the age of 77, leaving a huge imprint ...

FRIDAY is the 50th anniversary of when the legendary communist Paul Robeson went on to enrich the ancestors.He was the classic example of an artist as revolutionary.Robeson, the son of a former ...

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

PATERSON — For almost a month, Lewis Cole has been working to promote the upcoming production of a one-person play about Paul Robeson, the actor, singer, football player and activist. Two days before ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Jamaaladeen Tacuma is a modern-day Renaissance man. "I found out that I really wasn't a singer, but I found my passion to be the bass guitar," he said. He's a musician, producer ...

Author Howard Bryant juxtaposes the politics and power of the two men in “Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson ...