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 ...

Saturday, June 1, 7pm, Santa Monica Playhouse Main Stage, 1211 4th St, Santa Monica, CA 90401. The Santa Monica Playhouse Black History Month Project presents Stogie Kenyatta's NAACP Award-winning ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Robeson in Show Boat. Everybody talks about Sidney Poitier’s movies, and for good reason. Mr. Poitier did a fantastic job of ...

Paul Robeson (center), an All-American athlete, singer, actor and advocate for civil rights. Middle school students in Princeton, Lawrence and Mercer County will have a chance to show off their ...

At the end of his life, famed singer, actor, activist and athlete Paul Robeson came to live in West Philadelphia in 1966 with his sister Marian R. Forsythe in a three-story home at 4951 Walnut St.

In 1949, Paul Robeson performed the “Song of the Jewish Partisans” in Moscow, in the Yiddish original. At a time of rising Stalinist antisemitism, Robeson’s act of solidarity made clear his stand ...

2 THEORY OF FLAMES Comes to the Dutch National Opera in March Actor/Playwright Stogie Kenyatta returns to Santa Monica Playhouse with his acclaimed one-man show about the life of Actor/Activist Paul ...

THE BASICS: A PITCH FOR SATCHEL PAIGE, by Jim and Loren Keller, directed by Verneice Turner, presented by the Paul Robeson Theatre, starring Roosevelt Tidwell III (weeks 1 & 3) and Russell Holt (weeks ...

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