The British Film Institute is holding a special retrospective of the actor and activist, who had a near-lifelong bond with the U.K., as part of its Black Star season. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent ...

Singing or acting on stage and film, playing football and advocating for civil rights made Paul Robeson a global star. He was one of the most famous Americans in the 1930s and 1940s, but McCarthyism ...

Australian journalist Jeff Sparrow's long journey into the mysteries of Paul Robeson, the now nearly forgotten African-American entertainer and controversial citizen, is not a standard biography.

Paul Robeson, who was born in 1898, said in the 1960s (after a public reading in Toronto) that he had but one purpose in life: “to fight for my people that they shall walk this earth as free as any ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- April marks what would have been the 125th birthday of singer and activist Paul Leroy Robeson. He was a legend known around the globe but had a special connection to Philadelphia ...