“Powerful & poignant, entertaining & educational, heartfelt & humorous!” Cape Cod Times. The Santa Monica Playhouse Black History [every] Month Project honors Paul Robeson with celebrity Stogie ...

This serviceable biography follows Robeson's remarkable career as an actor and activist, attempting to rescue his contributions to the stage and the political scene from the pall cast over them by a ...

"Using Theater as a vehicle for Social change, Kenyatta is powerful & poignant, entertaining & educational, heartfelt & humorous, the show celebrates our common humanity." Cape Cod Times. Santa Monica ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

FOR comfortable, undisturbing reading, you really can’t do better this week than “Years of Grace,” by Margaret Ayer Barnes. It is the first long novel by Mrs. Barnes, who writes pleasant fiction for ...

Paul Robeson is a world famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When over the years he gets progressively too radical and outspoken for the establishment’s liking, he is branded a traitor to ...