Paul Robeson

LIVE from Philly this Friday: Celebrating Paul Robeson, The Great Forerunner

April 7, 2021 By Special to People’s World

April 9th is always a special day at 4951 Walnut Street in Philly, and this year will be no different.

Taking a long look backward to explain a police killing in Sacramento

April 9, 2018 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

A system of racial oppression and race hatred has prevailed throughout U.S. history. Its staying power calls for explanation. Historian Gerald Horne offers insights.

Paul Robeson’s role in Spain remembered

January 4, 2017 By Gabe Falsetta

The talk highlighted Robeson’s support for the Spanish Republic and the International Brigades - the volunteers who had come from around the world to fight for democracy and to resist fascism in Spain.

I was there – Peekskill 1949

September 3, 2009 By Erwin Marquit

On August 27, 1949, Paul Robeson was scheduled to sing at a concert sponsored by the music group People’s Artists at the Lakeland Acres Picnic Grounds, a few miles north of Peekskill, New York, about fifty...

Peekskill remembered

September 2, 2009 By Daniel Frontino Elash

The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People's Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People's Songs formation that had launched...