Paul Robeson

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/23/2020
  

  Malcolm X Warned Us about the Pitfalls of Black Celebrities as Leaders

  by Kyle T. Mays

  The media’s overemphasis on the voices of Black celebrities obscures the voices of ordinary Black people, whose lives are vastly different from those who have wealth and visibility.

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  7/15/2020
  

  The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Anti-Fascist Singer, Artist, and Rebel (Podcast)

  Historian and Robeson biographer Gerald Horne discusses the singer and activist's legacy and politics. 

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• SOURCE: The American Interest
  8/27/19
  

  The Price of Self-Delusion

  by Ronald Radosh

  Paul Robeson, the towering figure of American arts, athletics, and civil rights activism, was also an unapologetic Stalinist. Failing to acknowledge this checkered legacy ultimately does a disservice to the goals he fought for.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  5-8-14
  

  We Are Long Overdue for a Paul Robeson Revival

  by Peter Dreier

  Paul Robeson was the most talented person of the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: PJ Media
  4-28-14
  

  Once Again, The New York Times Whitewashes Paul Robeson

  by Ron Radosh

  "Robeson was in fact a secret member of the CPUSA for decades."

• SOURCE: PJ Media
  3-7-13
  

  Ron Radosh: When the New Left Shilled for North Korea

  Ron Radosh is a PJ Media columnist and Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute....When North Korea was still being led by its original founder, Kim Il-Sung, the visitors from the United States to the horrendous Communist regime were not the likes of Dennis Rodman. Today, the founder’s grandson has inherited the mantle of leadership, thereby carrying on the dynasty that rules in the name of Marxism-Leninism, as modified by the founder’s philosophy of juche, or self-reliance, autonomy and independence.How far the North Korean Communists have fallen. Back in the day of the old fellow-travelers’ tours to the various communist paradises, the regimes had their praises sung by the likes of the African-American baritone Paul Robeson, who regularly went to the USSR and told the world how great Comrade Stalin was and how the Soviet Union had the only real democracy on earth . At least Robeson was an All-American football quarterback, Phi Beta Kappa, and the most well-known black American actor and singer in the 1930s and 40s, who got a law degree as well at Columbia University. That a man so intelligent could function as a dupe for Stalin was far more worrisome than seeing Rodman do the same today. No one would call Rodman intelligent. He is both a useful idiot as well as a real one; Robeson only filled the first category.