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'Kings and pawns' tells the untold story of Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson

Author Howard Bryant joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America'. GOP lawmakers push for charges against former White House aide for Jan. 6 ...
Little Village Magazine

Athlete and lawyer Paul Robeson was a renowned singer of spirituals, Broadway hits and patriotic tunes. By 1950, the U.S. government flagged him as a radical.

On the evening of Feb. 4, 1932, an eager crowd gathered at the Hoyt Sherman Place auditorium for a recital of spirituals by a man whose bass-baritone voice was already […] ...
NPR

Sportswriter Howard Bryant talks about his book, 'Kings and Pawns'

Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson were both heroes. Robinson, the great athlete who broke baseball's color barrier and inspired millions across America with his courage under a hail of hatred, as Count ...
CounterPunch

Paul Robeson: The Renaissance Man Vanishes

January 23rd was the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death. As historian Gerald Horne noted in his 2016 biography of Robeson, Time magazine declared him “probably the most famous living negro” in ...