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50+ Music<p>Ol' Man River 🇮🇲 <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df4VdyGIqJ8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=df4VdyGIqJ8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Stones of David<p>Remembering Paul Robeson this weekend.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africa</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.community/@blackvoices" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blackvoices</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blackmastodon</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@blackgirlnerds/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blackgirlnerds</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@BLKNewsNow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BLKNewsNow</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/jimcrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jimcrow</span></a></p>
Dr. Dani Sanchez<p>Paul Robeson. bass-baritone concert artist, actor, lawyer, professional football player &amp; activist- an all around once in a lifetime talent. Here he is with the spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (<a href="https://youtu.be/ryM5a3ShRJU?si=tE6Uw1kHZsdzgJ1q)Seek" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/ryM5a3ShRJU?si=tE6Uw1</span><span class="invisible">kHZsdzgJ1q)Seek</span></a> medical attention if you aren’t moved<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroView</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>Paul Robeson and wife Eslanda Goode Robeson are with UCD medical students on their 1935 visit to Dublin. He would later sing about UCD medical student Kevin Barry, killed OTD 1920. "Songs of Struggle" suggests the song was recorded in 1947.</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=BSjO9rIwn5M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=BSjO9rIwn5</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p>Songs of Struggle:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Songs-Struggle-Rarities-Paul-Robeson/dp/B000BYW7B0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">amazon.co.uk/Songs-Struggle-Ra</span><span class="invisible">rities-Paul-Robeson/dp/B000BYW7B0</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dublin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/UniversityCollegeDublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityCollegeDublin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/KevinBarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KevinBarry</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda visit with students at the medical school at the University of Dublin. The image includes (back: row third from left) Dr. Noel Holmes who became the Chief Medical Examiner of Jamaica and Dr. Errol Thompson (back row, fifth from left). Dr. Thompson went on to become an Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon in New York and founded the Speech and Hearing Center at Harlem Hospital. The image was contributed by Karen Greene, the daughter of Dr. Errol Thomas.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1976, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a>, American stage and screen bass-<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/baritone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>baritone</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/singer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>singer</span></a> ("Old Man River"), actor, and civil rights activist, died of stroke complications in Philadelphia at 77. †<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
iamBullivant<p>He particularly admired Irish literature and music and was an avid reader of WB Yeats.</p><p>Paul Robeson signing Joe Hill to Scottish miners in 1949:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SpanishCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpanishCivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WBYeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WBYeats</span></a></p><p>3/3</p>
iamBullivant<p>... and it continued with his support for the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War and his involvement in the Council on African Affairs.</p><p>He fell foul of senator Joe McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee and had his passport and concerts cancelled. Before then he visited Ireland at least three times and performed in Dublin, Limerick, and Cork in the 1930s.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SpanishCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpanishCivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WBYeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WBYeats</span></a></p><p>2/3</p>
iamBullivant<p>Paul Robeson died on 23 January 1976. He was an American concert artist, stage and film actor, professional football player and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances.</p><p>Robeson's political activities began with his involvement with unemployed workers and anti-imperialist students in Britain...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/SpanishCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpanishCivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/WBYeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WBYeats</span></a></p><p>1/3</p>
Roberto von Archimboldi<p>Here is an extraordinary singer, Paul Robeson, who was more actively persecuted than Ochs for his political beliefs singing about Joe Hill who was fitted up and killed by the state for singing and organizing</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=n8Kxq9uFDe</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwasEverThus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwasEverThus</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoeHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoeHill</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PhilOchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilOchs</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1945, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements.</p>
John Autry<p>September 4, 1949 - Paul Robeson, scholar, athlete, musician and leader, defying a racist and red-baiting mob, sang to 15,000 at a Labor Day gathering in Peekskill, New York.<br>During the event, screaming local mobs blocked the entrance to the concert area and harassed concertgoers. The veterans’ groups paraded along the highway, automobile horns blared and bands played. Attackers screamed: “We’re Hitler’s boys — here to finish his job.”<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Peekskill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peekskill</span></a></p>
Mrowster<p><a href="https://linernotes.club/tags/NowPlaying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NowPlaying</span></a> <a href="https://linernotes.club/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://linernotes.club/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communism</span></a></p><p>Paul Robeson - "The Legendary Moscow Concert" (Revelation, 1997)</p><p>Simply astonishing Soviet live recording of Paul Robeson's Moscow radio concert on 14 June 1949, first unearthed in 1995 by Tristan Del. The story of the recording is detailed by Paul's now-deceased son, Paul Robeson Jr., in the CD liners - but read more about it here:</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/robeson-s-message-from-the-grave-1290185.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/life-style/r</span><span class="invisible">obeson-s-message-from-the-grave-1290185.html</span></a></p>
James M. Branum יעקב מתתיהו<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=w3OjHIhLCDs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;</span><span class="invisible">v=w3OjHIhLCDs</span></a></p><p>My new favorite version of "Go Down Moses," made all the more powerful by knowing Paul Robeson's story.</p><p>If you don't know his story, you need to. And then listen to this song.</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Pesach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pesach</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/AfricanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/GoDownMoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoDownMoses</span></a></p>
Antifa International<p>"This is a serious job - winning this war against fascists. We have to be together." - Paul Robeson.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/originalantifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalantifa</span></a></p>
Dr. Dani Sanchez<p>Paul Robeson and his wife &amp; manager of 22 years, Eslanda “Essie” Goode Robeson (also pictured is their son, Paul Jr.)<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SilentFlickerSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilentFlickerSunday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Borderline1930" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Borderline1930</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EslandaRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EslandaRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
Dr. Dani Sanchez<p>Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898&nbsp;– January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone, actor, professional football player, and activist. Also, he was a lawyer.. just the total definition of a Renaissance Man. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroView" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroView</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> An archive of Freedom, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223255/http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2019012322</span><span class="invisible">3255/http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards <a href="https://revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-un</span><span class="invisible">sealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/TeachersStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeachersStrike</span></a> <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/rising-tide-teacher-strikes-finally-exposing-corrupt-charter-school-agenda.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/ri</span><span class="invisible">sing-tide-teacher-strikes-finally-exposing-corrupt-charter-school-agenda.html</span></a></p><p>7/</p>
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson<p>What about Paul Robeson and the interdimensional FediUnion chorus singing "John Brown's Body"?</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ArtFED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtFED</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TCKF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TCKF</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antifascist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SoundCollage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoundCollage</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/MusiqueConcrete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusiqueConcrete</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AudioCollage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AudioCollage</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/JohnBrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnBrown</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a></p>
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson<p>Some fuel for the fight. It's all one fight.</p><p>Long distance transmission of miners singing along with Paul Robeson doing "John Brown's Body"</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/JohnBrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnBrown</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ArtFED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtFED</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antifascist</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a></p>
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