Black Dogs (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
My grandfather had a lot of Paul Robeson 78s, and they are among the earliest things I remember. Water Boy was certainly among them, and Ol’ Man River , but I particularly remember My Curly-headed Baby and Shortnin’ Bread . To tell the truth, though, although I liked the songs, I didn’t like his voice much – I think I found it too heavy. I preferred Isobel Baillie, and to this day I’m...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
The sexual adventuress was involved with West Indian cabaret singer and pianist Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson, according to a new TV documentary.
SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Call Mr. Robeson: A play about Paul Robeson Thursday 20th November 2008 - Friday 21st November 2008 7.30pm, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green Road, London E2 6HG Left Alternative is hosting “Called Mr. Robeson”, a play about Paul Robeson by Tayo Aluko. Paul Robeson is one of the greatest actors, singers and civil rights campaigners...
The Stage (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Exclusive - Lenny Henry is to play American actor and activist Paul Robeson in a BBC drama that charts the performer's fall from grace.
Concrete Loop (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
PAUL ROBESON (1898 – 1976) was an actor, athlete, civil rights activist, singer and one of the most gifted men of the 20th century. Born on April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul was the eighth child of Quaker abolitionist Maria Luisa Bustill and former slave and minister William Drew Robeson. In 1915, Robeson graduated high [...]
Reference at Newman Library (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
I found a fast paced, funny, and fact packed tutorial about using the Wikipedia for research on YouTube. It was produced by John Gibson and Vibiana Bowman, librarians at the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers, Camden where I worked a long time ago. Although written for a student audience, I think it might be better pitched to faculty or librarians who want to show their students how the...
West Seattle Blog... (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
... Always in pursuit of the perfect tomato, varieties include Cherokee Purple, Clarance, Empire, Paul Robeson, Mortgage Lifter, SunSugar and Box Car Willie. Beefsteak, Cherry, Cluster, Roma and Yellow varieties. NEW Dairy at U-District : Golden Glen Creamery out of Bow, Washington ( Skagit County ) has fresh milk, eggnog, chocolate milk, cheddars, curds and BUTTER!!! GOT SOUP: Homemade...
On The record Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... often at odds with left-leaning Black leaders throughout his reign, including Marcus Garvey and Paul Robeson. During the tumultuous ‘60s decade, Hoover went even further, undertaking a virtual counter-revolution against the civil rights movement – with particular venom directed at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – and ultimately enabling the Bureau to create COINTELPRO. *Veteran civil...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... including Danny Glover ("The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro -- Frederick Douglass"); Paul Robeson, Jr. ("Ballad of Roosevelt -- Langston Hughes"); Wallace Shawn ("Why We Fight -- Vito Russo"); Marisa Tomei ("It's Time the Antiwar Choir Started Singing -- Cindy Sheehan"); John Sayles ("Comments on the Moro Massacre -- Mark Twain") and many others. These are the words of people...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... Intelligence Program. Hoover targeted left-leaning black leaders including Marcus Garvey and Paul Robeson and took up a near counter-revolution against the Civil Rights Movement, especially Martin Luther King, Jr. Much later, U.S. congressional investigations detailing COINTELPRO's actions implicated the Bureau in the framing and murder of prominent activists.
Rhapsodyinbooks's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
What a great way to spend your spare time! Check out millions of photographs sorted by date (starting from the 1860s) or by category or searchable. Go here . Paul Robeson at the Lincoln Memorial
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Sanders Of The River 1:50am Wednesday, 19 Nov 2008 Repeat PG Bosambo is probationary chief to a British Commissioner. Under orders, he frees a slave convoy sent by King Mofalaba and marries the most beautiful slave. Then, King Mofalaba attacks... CAST: Paul Robeson DIR: Zoltan Korda (1935)
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
... property” in the U.S. Supreme Court, Rabinowitz Boudin “counted as clients Daniel Ellsberg, Paul Robeson, Julian Bond, Dashiell Hammett, Dr. Benjamin Spock, the Rev. Philip Berrigan, Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, the Salvador Allende government in Chile,…. During the Vietnam War, the Rabinowitz Boudin firm represented hundreds of men facing the draft or criminal charges for refusing...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
... of life if is elected president. It takes both capitalism and socialism to keep America running. Paul Whiteley Sr.Louisville Ky.Powers' denial of Obama's socialist persona ignores the man's own claims to be a progressive - long the radical left's code word for "socialist." When "Socialism or Death" Fidel Castro endorsed Obama, he did so because he is the most progressive candidate for the...
uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... leader William Hood delivered a speech at the founding convention titled, “Uncle Tom is Dead,” and Paul Robeson sang and spoke as well. Delegates approved a program for the NNLC that called for the end of discrimination in the workplace, the construction of 100,000 new jobs for African-Americans, and making the Fair Employment Practices Committee clauses a part of union contract negotiations....
