#paulrobeson — Public Fediverse posts
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#SaturdayOnStage #FolkSongs #Miners #Union
Short promotional film with live clip of #PaulRobeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" in the canteen at Woolmet Colliery, Midlothian, Scotland (1949)
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Also, here’s all of the #SilentFilm, Transitional sound film and/or films related to #SilentFilm and Transitional sound films on the TCM schedule for May that I could see #TCMParty #PaulRobeson #comedy #SilentSundayNights #horror
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Oscar winning trailblazing actress Hattie McDoniel and legendary activist and mutlihyphenate (he was a professional athlete, a lawyer, singer, writer AND actor) Paul Robeson with “Ah Still Suits Me” (https://youtu.be/I9MfCFAcQEE?si=tjZB7gUlgXWU-fZq) from the 1936 film version Show Boat”
#RetroView #HattieMcDaniel #PaulRobeson #BlackHistoryMonth -
50 years ago today, #PaulRobeson, American stage and screen bass-#baritone #singer ("Old Man River"), actor, and civil rights activist, died of stroke complications in Philadelphia at 77.
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Emmy Winners Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson To Direct Documentary On Paul Robeson, Giant Of 20th Century Arts, Entertainment, Politics
#Documentary #News #JoeBrewster #MichèleStephenson #PaulRobesonhttps://deadline.com/2025/11/paul-robeson-documentary-joe-brewster-michele-stephenson-1236608859/
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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.
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.”
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#GoinHome #PaulRobeson #TheSnakePit #OliviaDeHavilland
The most moving performance of this song is from The Snake Pit, starring DeHavilland, sung by Jan Clayton in the film.
100% cry every time, for both versions. If you never saw The Snake Pit it's worth a watch.
This version is Robeson. I'll link the movie version below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9smSP1dq-A&list=RDM9smSP1dq-A&start_radio=1
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#GeraldHorne on the life and death of #PaulRobeson who filed a #genocide charge at the #UN against the #US over their treatment of #Black and #Colored people in #slavery.
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Happy Black History Month from Alan, and the Valley of the Dolls! #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #paulrobeson #civilrights #equalrights #martinlutherking #mlk #dolls #dollcollector #dollphotographer #fashiondolls #vintagedolls #1960s #twentiethcentury
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Happy Black History Month from Alan, and the Valley of the Dolls! #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #paulrobeson #civilrights #equalrights #martinlutherking #mlk #dolls #dollcollector #dollphotographer #fashiondolls #vintagedolls #1960s #twentiethcentury
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Happy Black History Month from Alan, and the Valley of the Dolls! #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #paulrobeson #civilrights #equalrights #martinlutherking #mlk #dolls #dollcollector #dollphotographer #fashiondolls #vintagedolls #1960s #twentiethcentury
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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.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BSjO9rIwn5M
Songs of Struggle:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Songs-Struggle-Rarities-Paul-Robeson/dp/B000BYW7B0#PaulRobeson #Dublin #Ireland #UniversityCollegeDublin #KevinBarry
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He particularly admired Irish literature and music and was an avid reader of WB Yeats.
Paul Robeson signing Joe Hill to Scottish miners in 1949:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c#PaulRobeson #SpanishCivilWar #Ireland #WBYeats
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... and it continued with his support for the Republican cause during the Spanish Civil War and his involvement in the Council on African Affairs.
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.
#PaulRobeson #SpanishCivilWar #Ireland #WBYeats
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Song of the Day April 9 2024
In remembrance of the birth of Paul Robeson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
Paul Robeson - “Ol’ Man River” (from the 1936 Musical, "Showboat")
https://youtu.be/eh9WayN7R-s?si=aHAzxWwg382hfJd3
#SongOfTheDay ##SOTD #SOTD2024 #April9 #PaulRobeson #OlManRiver #Showboat #Music #MusicVideo #Movie #MovieSoundtrack #Spiritual #Jazz #Opera #1930s
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"This is a serious job - winning this war against fascists. We have to be together." - Paul Robeson.
#PaulRobeson #originalantifa -
CW: Long thread/7
#5yrsago An archive of Freedom, #PaulRobeson and Louis Burnham’s radical Harlem newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20190123223255/http://dlib.nyu.edu/freedom/
#5yrsago Unsealed court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on their parents’ credit cards https://revealnews.org/blog/a-judge-unsealed-a-trove-of-internal-facebook-documents-following-our-legal-action/
#5yrsago Why charter schools are the flashpoint for the LA #TeachersStrike https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/01/rising-tide-teacher-strikes-finally-exposing-corrupt-charter-school-agenda.html
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What about Paul Robeson and the interdimensional FediUnion chorus singing "John Brown's Body"?
#ArtFED #TCKF #Antifascist #SoundCollage #MusiqueConcrete #AudioCollage #JohnBrown #PaulRobeson
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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.
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.”
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Hello Lovely Peeps!
Have been thinking a lot about #community lately; all the definitions of all the permutations - from looking out for our next door neighbour to our #responsibilities as global citizens.
For better or for worse, we are bound to each other & each little thing we do (or don't do) will eventually affect us all.
“We are each other's harvest;
we are each other's business;
we are each other's magnitude and bond.”
~ #GwendolynBrooks, from her #poem '#PaulRobeson' -
Song of the Day April 9 2023
In remembrance of the birth of Paul Robeson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
Paul Robeson on “Spotlight” May 11, 1960 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #April9 #PaulRobeson #Singer #TheatricalSinger #OperaSinger #Activist #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation #TVInterview #Australia #AustralianTelevision #Racism #RaceInAmerica #1960s
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Song of the Day April 9 2023
In remembrance of the birth of Paul Robeson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson
Paul Robeson on “Spotlight” May 11, 1960 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2023 #April9 #PaulRobeson #Singer #TheatricalSinger #OperaSinger #Activist #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation #TVInterview #Australia #AustralianTelevision #Racism #RaceInAmerica #1960s
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Thought today might be a good one to re-post something I'd put on another social network about #SolomonCarterFuller, often celebrated as the 1st Black psychiatrist, but whose place in #neurology and #neuroscience is underrecognized.
As a med student, Fuller attended a key event in the history of US neuropsychiatry: neurologist S. Weir Mitchell’s address to the AMPA (precursor to APA). Mitchell harshly critiqued the absence of a research program in asylum medicine. Asylums responded by setting up new labs; as autopsies were uncommon in the US compared to Europe, Fuller recognized that this new field presented more open opportunity to him as a Black MD, and came to lead a pathology lab at Westboro Hospital.
Like many US docs then, he sought more training in Europe. He studied German and in 1904 went to Munich, where he worked in Alzheimer's lab alongside Frederic #Lewy. He was treated more equitably there than in the US.
After his return to the US, Auguste D died in 1906 and #Alzheimer presented her case; that year Fuller presented one of the first accounts of neurofibrillary pathology to the AMPA. In 1912 Fuller published the 1st review of #AlzheimersDisease cases (including one of his own, the 9th overall) and the first English translation of Alzheimer's work.
In 1909, Fuller was invited to speak at #ClarkUniversity 20th anniversary; other invitees were a “little-known Viennese neurologist and his Swiss colleague” (Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers)—a turning point in US psychiatry. Fuller took interest in psychoanalysis & maintained correspondence w/ #Jung, Meyer & Adler.
Fuller trained a cohort of Black psychiatrists, who mentored others. He led the #BostonUniversity dept of neurology for 5y but underpaid and untitled; when a white assistant prof was named chair ahead of him he went into private practice. His death was commemorated by James B Ayer: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM195401212500316
In addition to these scientific connections, Fuller enjoyed close ties with other important historical figures. His wife Meta was herself an important sculptor championed by #Rodin & they were close with other leaders like #WEBDuBois & #PaulRobeson.
Neurologists and neuroscientists should celebrate Fuller as our colleagues in #psychiatry do. I recommend Mary Kaplan's lively biography Where My Caravan Has Rested, including an oral history that Fuller dictated to his son, to all. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackInNeuro
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André Leon Talley's Designer Collections to Be Auctioned Off With Proceeds Benefitting Two Black Churches | https://www.theroot.com/andre-leon-talleys-designer-collections-to-be-auctioned-1850001001 #andrc3a9leontalley #henrylouisgatesjr #thefordfoundation #louisedahlwolfe #oscardelarenta #voguemagazine #luxurybrands #darrenwalker #cecilbeaton #christie27s #paulrobeson #horstphorst #clothing #christie #fashion #louisxv #auction #culture #talley #hermes #kaftan #andre
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https://archive.org/details/paulrobesonmi5
Paul Robeson MI5 documents by Security Service (MI5), the national archives
Topics #PaulRobeson, #MI5, #anticommunism, #politicalpolice, #surveillance, #racism, #counterinsurgency
“The documents on this page are drawn from Mi5 archives and relate to Paul Robeson's activities.” (source)
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https://archive.org/details/paulrobesonmi5
Paul Robeson MI5 documents by Security Service (MI5), the national archives
Topics #PaulRobeson, #MI5, #anticommunism, #politicalpolice, #surveillance, #racism, #counterinsurgency
“The documents on this page are drawn from Mi5 archives and relate to Paul Robeson's activities.” (source)
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https://archive.org/details/paulrobesonmi5
Paul Robeson MI5 documents by Security Service (MI5), the national archives
Topics #PaulRobeson, #MI5, #anticommunism, #politicalpolice, #surveillance, #racism, #counterinsurgency
“The documents on this page are drawn from Mi5 archives and relate to Paul Robeson's activities.” (source)
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https://archive.org/details/paulrobesonmi5
Paul Robeson MI5 documents by Security Service (MI5), the national archives
Topics #PaulRobeson, #MI5, #anticommunism, #politicalpolice, #surveillance, #racism, #counterinsurgency
“The documents on this page are drawn from Mi5 archives and relate to Paul Robeson's activities.” (source)
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https://archive.org/details/paulrobesonmi5
Paul Robeson MI5 documents by Security Service (MI5), the national archives
Topics #PaulRobeson, #MI5, #anticommunism, #politicalpolice, #surveillance, #racism, #counterinsurgency
“The documents on this page are drawn from Mi5 archives and relate to Paul Robeson's activities.” (source)
