'Paul Robeson' Review: A Tribute to an Entertainment Titan
The film’s subtitle is drawn from one of the performer’s quotes in his autobiography “Here I Stand”: “I’m a Negro. I’m an American.”
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The film’s subtitle is drawn from one of the performer’s quotes in his autobiography “Here I Stand”: “I’m a Negro. I’m an American.”
'Othello,' Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy and revenge, gets a strong staging at San Jose Stage.
'Othello,' Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy and revenge, gets a strong staging at San Jose Stage.
Robeson was the name of a white, slave-owning family in North Carolina before the American Civil War. Their Black slaves took the same surname and among them was William Drew Robeson, who ran away from the plantation, fought for the North in the Civil War and later became a Presbyterian minister and subsequently a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. He married a Quaker schoolteacher, Maria Louisa Bustill of Philadelphia, of mixed Black, American Indian and white Quaker descent. The Robesons were an upwardly mobile family and their three older sons were to have careers as a ...