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 ...

Paul Robeson stars former Cincinnati City Councilman Wendell Young as Robeson. Avery Hammonds directs. With Robeson's signature "Ol' Man River," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and other spirituals and ...

Two leading singers of their generation center recitals on Paul Robeson and the Messiaen song cycle “Harawi.” The performances are nothing short of thrillingly transcendent. The old-fashioned song (or ...

There aren’t many people born 126 years ago who still command a place in the collective memory, but Paul Robeson, the great black bass-baritone, is certainly one of them. Born in Princeton, N.J., in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Communist, fellow traveler, red, pinko, commie, useful idiot — the searing epithets of the Cold War have lost their sting but in ...

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 ...

A box set featuring previously unreleased recordings sheds new light on the life and legacy of Paul Robeson, a bass-baritone concert artist,... Paul Robeson's many faces get new spotlight in recording ...