Paul Robeson doesn't fit into "a comfortable black history," says one of the dozens of characters played by Daniel Beaty in his slick, sober solo drama, "The Tallest Tree in the Forest." Indeed, he didn't. He was a football star and a college valedictorian at Rutgers, an international singer and actor who became the first black Broadway "Othello" " and who, although married, slept with both of his Desdemonas (Peggy A…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:30PM on January 19, 2014