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Sunday, July 2, 2017

How Paul Robeson found his political voice in the Welsh valleys by Jeff Sparrow

African American star Robeson built his singing career in the teeth of racism in the early 1900s. But his radicalism was spurred on in Britain – by a chance meeting with a group of Welsh m…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Paul Robeson's songs and deeds light the way for the fight against Trump | Jeff Sparrow by Jeff Sparrow

The great American radical showed how ordinary people mattered more than stars – a lesson today’s celebrities could do with learningThese are strange times for popular music and politics…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18PM

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