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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: Paul Robeson Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12, 1956
11 Sep 2024
Revisiting Paul Robeson’s prepared statement to the House Un-American Activities Committee–during a new era of repression.
Abayomi Azikiwe
African Americans and the Cold War from Civil Rights to Black Power
13 Mar 2024
The end of the Second Imperialist War (World War II) did not usher in the end of colonialism and oppression for Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. The resistance of Pan-African movements…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Forge Negro-Labor Unity for Peace and Jobs, Paul Robeson, 1950
12 Apr 2023
Paul Robeson’s 1950 speech to the delegates of the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights should remind us that there is no Black liberation struggle without the Black working masses.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gao Yunxiang’s “Arise Africa! Roar China!”
11 May 2022
This week’s featured author is Gao Yunxiang. Gao Yunxiang is Professor of History at Ryerson University. Her book is Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the…
Gregory N. Heires
Paul Robeson’s American Ballad
28 Oct 2020
Brilliant and amazingly multitalented, Robeson was once among the most popular men in the U.S;, but became a non-person under relentless red-baiting.
R. Divya Nair
Oraa Aamaader Gaan Gaaite Dyay Naa: A Bengali Panegyric to Paul Robeson
20 Jun 2018
“The Indian people cherish Robeson’s example of revolutionary humanity at its most developed and saluted him as their black brother in struggle.”