18 Burst results for "Paul Roberson"
NFL Live
"paul robeson" Discussed on NFL Live
"Off top. The son of an escaped enslaved person, Paul Robeson, was a two time all American at Rutgers and also valedictorian. While an NFL, he earned a law degree from Columbia. He quit football became a movie star, musician, and then committed his life to activism. It's a real crazy story. She takes some time to read about it. Play the music. This is a Dominique foxworth show. What up, Charlie? Feeling very unaccomplished right now. Yeah, I could fit in all the impressive things from his dalliances and politics and everything but he's a civil rights activist, a worker's rights activist moved to Europe where he became a star there. But anyway, we'll get, we'll get back to that at some layer point or I'll send you a book or something, but where I wanted to start was with John morant and it's not about the incidents, any of the incidents in particular. It's just much, I don't know, it's a bigger picture, thought I guess, that I've been working with and juggling with when it comes to John morant. And it's just like about maturation and growing up and I think we often think of people as being adults after their 18 or 21 or 25 or I don't think that's how it works, I guess there's no law that you have to stop, I guess you do, we all like stop maturing physically. At a certain age, around 16 to 20 or so, but you never really stop growing up, I think, or you shouldn't, at least. I feel like one of the worst things about getting older and also the best thing about getting older is looking back at how stupid you were or all the stupid things you said or did or thought just a couple of years ago. And I have that now as I'm coming up on my 40th birthday, I can look back at things that I did when I was 35 and you know you think like a 35 year old is a full grown person and that you are who you are but I don't know, I don't believe that and it pertains to job because I think we're seeing him do some really immature things and everyone's like you're a grown ass man, but at the same time like I mentioned I can think of things nothing as risky or as dangerous as jab, but I can think of things from just a few years ago that I'm embarrassed by and positions that I took and like, I don't
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"paul robeson" Discussed on The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"And want and want. And it's like Lucy in the football. We will do everything we can. To prove that we can be trusted that we're loyal, that we belong, and then we go to kick the football, and end up like Charlie Brown. I mean, Sugar Ray Robinson selling out Paul Robeson was something. Yeah, that's unfortunate. I would ask one last thing before we get out of here 'cause, you know, I guess I get more of this dominate too, but I still want to get your thought. This is Ed Reed thing. I feel like nobody looks. Nobody looks good. Everybody looks real. Everybody looks terrible. I mean, I don't. One. We do like, I mean, why is the HBCU why is it the punching bag? The administrative punching bag, these coaches. I mean, that piece, it was just the whole thing looked incredibly unprofessional to me. If you read, are you going to be a coach? Ed Reed was that video looked like he was trying to get everybody motivated for the AFC title game. I was like, it's a different skill set, man. It's a totally different skill set. Like, anybody that was like, we want airy to get his job back. No, he made it very clear he did not need to be the coach of nobody's head coach. There's certain ways you gotta do it and he can't. Can't. He still thinks it's third and 9. Like, he is all like, yeah, he is all motivation. Like that is exactly what he is. He gonna get it all done like that and I'm just like, hey man, you got all Instagram Live and trash your bosses before you even had the job. Goldie black people only black people would be expected to put up with that. That's the thing that people don't seem to like and I said this on Twitter and I mean this is so wild that I haven't even really been hard on it but people will stand these stars to stand up for one of these black dudes over a whole black institution and then call me to sell out. That's right, right? And that's the thing that got me about that is that dude is clearly shown that he doesn't have the temperament for what is in effect a corporate job, right? It's a white collar job. It's a management job. And you don't get to act like that. No, you don't. It's simple as that. You don't get to act like that. Now, do they need to fix a whole bunch of other stuff? Absolutely. Does the school have big problems? Absolutely. Do any of the people talking to me about how messed up the school is? Give a damn about it, not a one. Not a one. Not a care about it's a celebrity story. Yep. And then I talk about Diaz, but we're not talking about Deion Sanders this time. We talk about every. And I know that Andrea even probably has, he has lower dislike ratings than Dion dos, right? He's Ed Reed, who doesn't like it, Reed. But we're still talking about Ed Reed here. And look, there's big problems. I can say that apply to so many different people.
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"paul robeson" Discussed on The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is that time of week. We have a guest join us coming to us live from meadowlark media and ESPN. Howard Brian was going on man? Good morning, good morning. How you doing, bell? Good, man. Yeah, I want to, I'm gonna talk a little bit about this Deion stuff, you know, as we go in this. But how much can we tell to people about the project you work at all right now? Virtually nothing. Nothing at all. No, we can say something, of course. I'll meet details, but the big thing that you work at all, because I just think it's one of the coolest projects somebody could do. Yes, I am working on the date most people don't know exists. July 18th, 1949, Jackie Robinson goes to Washington to testify to the house on American activities committee against Paul Robeson. Who supposedly said that it is inconceivable that negroes would fight a war for the United States against the Soviet Union. And they brought Jackie into. Put Paul Robeson in his place. One of the great moments in history, uncovered, bad. One, I encourage people, like the one thing I could suggest is there's the documentary you can find on YouTube by Paul Robeson. I don't remember the title but it's directed by saint Clair Bourne. I recommend people check that out because Paul Robinson's the baddest man.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
"paul robeson" Discussed on Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
"And eventually they were like, yeah, you got to go. That's enough. Yeah, he wasn't with him very long. No. No. But he said, in an interview, he said, I wouldn't change a thing. You know, there's like a video of him that they said it's one of the only ones that somebody got. It's on YouTube. I went and looked at it. And it is this long twanging down on your knees. You go to see kiss. You're not going to see, you know, it was almost like hairband before air bend. That'll. But let's see. Let's get one more. Let's get one more. The gloomy Sunday curse. If you hear the gloomy Sunday curse, no. All right. So it says, can a song be so sad and depressing that it encourages people to end their lives? What's the most depressing song you've ever heard? I think I'm so lonesome I could cry by Hank Williams is a pretty depressing song. But let's see. It's a motherfucker by the eels is a pretty depressing song. Did you have one in mind? No, no, no. I was just curious. I was just curious. Yeah, but yeah. Yeah. That's the most depressing song. Anyway, the song question. Yeah. Yeah. The song in question is by Hungarians Rez Rez sires and led this list. And it was written about suess's girlfriend who took her own life. When it was released in 1933, authorities reported a rise in people taking their lives and promptly banned it. From being played nationwide. It was also recorded by Paul Robeson and Billie Holiday in 1941. Each time it was released, it was held responsible for an uptick in untimely passings. So just because you mentioned there, you talk about depressing songs. How about strange fruit by Billie Holiday holy Moses? Yeah. Hey, so I'm not going to do any trivia this week because, well, we just gave out a lot of trivia.
WGBB Sports Talk New York
"paul robeson" Discussed on WGBB Sports Talk New York
"You'll find so much information that you'll you'll really enjoy. Give it a look then give us give us a like Also twitter we use twitter a lot where out there. It's wgn sports talk and you can also follow me on twitter at b. donahue wg bb. And if you miss a show don't worry because they're all archived out on the website and you can listen to them at your leisure. Well i guess. Is the nfl columnist for newsday covering the nfl. Since one thousand nine hundred five. He was selected for the two thousand twenty one career achievement award by the professional football writers of america for long distinguished service to pro football through coverage. He has a new book out written with the great keyshawn johnson. It's called the forgotten. I kenny washington what he strode. Mar marion motley. Bill willis and the breaking of the nfl color barrier. It's great to welcome to the show. Tonight bob glauber. Bob good evening. Hey good evening. Thank you for having me no worries. Glad to have you aboard. Bob now i just want to ask you. What was the road you traveled. That leads the newsday. Give us a little story on on how you got there. Well i started My newspaper career at beginning at westchester papers back believe it or not in the late nineteen seventies out rating in part time and then covering high school sports and then i got a chance to start covering football in. Nineteen eighty-five covered the giants and the great bill. Parcells and lt and phil simms teams and then in eighty nine went to newsday. Nice okay. great little path that you follow their. Yeah you're you're certainly got there and you're doing what you love and that's important now. How did you in keyshawn get together for this project. Who developed the concept really. Well i i was thinking about the concept and i went to keyshawn about a little less than a year and a half ago. Now i've known keyshawn his entire career With you know starting with the jets Met him even before he was drafted. You know he's got along with him and always found to be very compelling Figure to write about but in the last couple of years. I'd been thinking about this and you know i'm a journalist so i'm naturally curious about a lot of stuff and I just felt that you know the. Nfl is a very diverse Sport as far as its players and even in my time covering the league since eighty five. It's gotten more diverse. And i'm like like like how do you what if i go further back you know. What about the time. You know the thinking about baseball kojak. Everyone knows. Jackie robinson's first african americans spray color ray baseball and i'm thinking well who who is it in football and why don't i know it right so i'm literally in the giants locker room. One day googling First african american football player a nfl player and it goes back to. It's his kenny washington. Now he wasn't he he wasn't the first black player to play in the nfl. It was You know there. There were a few black players back in the twenties. When leaks started in including paul robeson right the opera singer and And i of course who's now in the hall of fame but found out that there was a ban on black players twelve years from eighteen. Thirty four to forty five and then kenny. Washington was the first to sign basically to reintegrate the nfl in forty six..
Behind the Bastards
"paul robeson" Discussed on Behind the Bastards
"But in this mess anyone who actually came in on on ethiopia side like nazi. Germany was just pursuing political end of their nobody. Nobody gives a shit the other than how it can affect their bottom line. Well on a national scale. Nobody gives a shit. So as the battle of adwa had become an international symbol of black resistance. The looming war between mussalini in ethiopia also became symbolic. It was in its own way. In international anti-fascist event not dissimilar from the spanish civil war. W e b dubois and. Paul robeson addressed a harlem a harlem lead against war and fascism rally one speaker tied mussolini's invasion to quote the terrible repression of black people in the united states. A people's march for ethiopia in harlem drew twenty five thousand people a mix of black americans and anti fascist italian americans who showed up an admirable gesture of solidarity and as in the spanish civil war. Men volunteered to fight in chicago. Eight thousand black men started drilling for battle five thousand in detroit two thousand in kansas city. Most of these men never made it over to ethiopia right. Because it's illegal to do this right. And the law was in. The law was more willing to enforce this law against black people than it would against white people trying to fight and say the spanish civil war right now. that was even that checks. Yeah there were however. Some black americans made it over including a black american pilot and engineer. Who helped ethiopia build and train a small air force. Yeah yeah so. There are some some guys who come over and the most significant gestures support from black. America probably came from the harlem hospital which collected enough money to send a seventy five bed hospital in two tons of badly needed medical supplies to ethiopia. That said none of this stops the italian war machine from massing ethiopia's borders right as the war. Drums are beating. Things are getting ready to start. Emperor highly selassie takes the unprecedented step of speaking before the league of nations. He is the first head of state to speak in the assembly which was not how was supposed to work. So this is like a really significant gesture. He tells the heads of europe quote. There is no precedent for a head of state himself speaking in this assembly but there is also no precedent for people being victim of such injustice and being at present threatened by abandonment to its aggressor. Also there has never before been an example of any government proceeding to the systematic extermination of a nation by. Barbara's means in violation of the most solemn promises made by the nations of the earth that they should not be used against innocent human beings. The terrible poison of harmful gases. It is to defend the people struggling for its age-old independence that the head of the ethiopian empire has come to geneva to fulfill the supreme duty after having himself fought at the head of his armies. What reply shall i have to take back to my people. There apply on october third. Nineteen thirty five when italian general. Emilio de bono marched his troops over the mara river. This is not a military history podcast. I'm not gonna give you a blow by blow. The ethiopians fought hard and they won several battles but the italian military was a twentieth century army. Even the ethiopians with rifles tended to carry shields to they had no armored vehicles. They had almost no air force and they were beaten..
The Running for Real Podcast
"paul robeson" Discussed on The Running for Real Podcast
"Winston living in a world where it's like oppressive depressing russell everybody's odor and with running the socio economic factors right in how that separates people mostly that when i look at is mostly is mosey people who are professionals Maybe lexus school ran track looking at it. Like y'all what are these people On gentrification must become as soon as you see somebody jogging on audit lot unite. Okay what's going on and we were trying to break down barriers now and it costs constables. Both sides is the kids looking at what they say not very welcoming like the way that people you know they moving around looking at you like from the like. What do you do a hit on. That was my experience. When i first started running tobbaco on it has any elitist mentality right like you know and you're out of touch and out of reach but really there's so much potential in the hurt. You know i mean when i look at wrath when i see him running so fast that i'm like wow. This is him now. Imagine if were was part of a program you not me when he was a kid and had the money and the potential to make something happen. He could've been in the olympics. We didn't have those over so that's also it there. So there's there's a little boat in every mabel hurt united me to show farah everywhere every block. Okay so if you hear like oh my god. There's a there's a girl like her every black to help her get to the olympics united. Meaning that's where matters equal you know. Just give a damn you know especially the cities like like what not from. I'm writing. i me your in in the city and in the city is not like the oldest auto abolish not like. You're not engaging with that tonight. So that's something that we've once we picked and say okay we. Are we doing this. We we want to get the kids off. Applaud gentlemen the corner. Those kids that we want running. We have run a marathon crazy. You have to reside race. Start training august council house to hat on a pretty healthy person. He thick asks what day of boy really what i and i often crowd in an isolated looking for trying to bring what before made that and so tussle run into streets. You have like your young and then they. I can't tell you how many people you've just picked street on senior by. Yeah and not ragas. Every month which is is is also change are just off perception lavar would also because that run it through the hood grew up your whole life and i always felt like i went all mud out for ninety nine mode. Their own. protest started running to seeing parts of my neighborhood that i've got seen before connecting with these spaces that were being on us and now we use it which is how we care about right. We care about the especially learning about the different landmarks in the historical pieces. Like for us as people of color like it's really up to actually learn about the history from communities in our neighborhoods especially in washington heights. Just lena horne to have lived there. Paul robeson. You don't have been running by those buildings. They would have come out of insight. We are the artists now but they were the artist of that top and like how how hard it was for them and matt how hard it is for us. It's also like we're just in the same galaxy frequency right just indifferent like channels. Yeah we'll and like it's so interesting. How did we survive this ride that we're in that information like more accessible being an were real for us. We could be just children. But i can't say down. Have all that a possibly use the veteran ferrick slaves on away from slavery. Right right it was a stop on the underground railroad and we would have never learned that without running by running in our neighborhood and seeing what's going on and seeing this group that actually is trying to get landmark status on this house because it was a stop on the underground railroad was huge. Because now we're able to say okay. This is what you guys are doing. Great how do we amplify. We'll talk about the other owners. Everybody in the community so we've become a big miles already. Doing that's great. You know so whether it's a young people that are starting a little garden for their school. We'll tell people to help them. More or landmark status were building like whatever anyone's doing something good in our community we want to amplify even more. I love the patch coming out with you. Birth with this is it. I mean it's clear from what you've been saying that it's working in it's happening and as as you said a template for other other cities of the places if they don't have their own versions of you somewhere i mean just the enthusiasm you have Wait to see you know how you do. Continue to change things in the future I would love to sora instagram. Pice of yours from a while back and it took about not letting anyone dim ulli if you didn't go to school about the pawsox to The of self and the world around us takes many forms. The world needs you. A voice love creativity and energy to ensure its survival. It's never too late to get in the game and then a preface warning about to swear for anyone who has kids over there is says she got with shit. Look at me so probably sounds funny coming from with my accent right. Tell us about that united. I mean that's something that people talk about often but it is of the big part of you to work against these voices telling you they stole. It may be. That was saying you didn't go to school that for you. Your voice isn't valid. Or maybe it never did have that voice and you're trying to show you see another so tell us about that thinking. Yeah so both me and kind of went back to school and and of try to complete that journey. Patty recently graduated nazis in graduate school and undergraduate on when i'll be graduated a year ago of next year. I'm going to my senior year and you know it's been a long journey. Yeah i'm definitely all sometimes. I feel like i'm the oldest person in my classes Doing my thing. But i think it's a i think it was important so to complete that journey. A.
Saving Sex and the City 3
"paul robeson" Discussed on Saving Sex and the City 3
"Yeah. I thought that you had vocal training using all the time and you're good at something. This has to be the nicest compliment. Anyone has ever. Like, I can tell you're not being sarcastic right now, and it really means a lot to me. I have never gotten vocals. I'm fixing the light. So I can sing. I have never gotten vocal training in my life. Damn, you could have fooled me cuz I truly did. Don't shut the video of this. I'm not knowing, that's me. Singing wage. If you I can sing, literally, if you close your eyes, I'm crying the most beautiful man with a cover page. Cuz I have to I have to like quadruple chin to do it, but I'm going to cover them again. What other song any requests to go deep? Okay, let's like, oh, there's a river walk like really deep. I wish that you listeners could see what Michelle does. Every time she goes into man thing, she covers the full camera. So I only see the palm of her hand and then a man voice. So I'll never be able to actually tell you that I've seen her singing. What if you just like bragged about this but you always had like a tape recorder on hand. That you could just life sounding like the fucking ghost of Paul Robeson is something I would bring up and parties and steaks, good idea. Let's go to the beginning of movie. I feel like this, we set this movie post, post covid-19 York, it's like a New York is kind of a dark place yet. Empty the only people that have stuck around, are like the incredibly wealthy and then, like Street, urchins and so metal name. Yeah, we go. Get all this research and Collins street urchin call follow her on social media, okay? So long.
Think 100%: The Coolest Show
"paul robeson" Discussed on Think 100%: The Coolest Show
"It was became this weird dichotomy between well. The facebook people don't get it And i will always low. Confuses is like that's not going to win this and not to be protecting atlantic. Because you know there's lots of catholics in his lots of pentecostals and there's lots of buddhists in the world is locked his lots of hindus everywhere in the blood. There's lots of seek and jane folks We need everybody on his on his in his mission. So i think that that. I think that's sort of like that where we agree. Redeem was really has a tool to be a translation device for people involved in the movement that want to connect with muslims. So if you wanted to take these concepts and ideas and a great example that is you talk about how we talk about like extraction as a key understanding within this context. You know the environmental movement is a the toxicity environments because we've sorta extracted resources out of the ground and we don't replenish them. We don't renew them. And we and we know. And then so the idea that we want regenerate instead of extract. Wanna move away from extraction and at manifest today with like you know extraction is taking oil and colon gas out of the ground right. Extraction economy was taking people out of places like africa extraction economy manifest today in extracting data from all these social media platforms right. It's a it's an approach. It's an approach to capitalism. That's gonna take from Regenerates approaches are are very wholesome way and health and more healthy help repair and heal. And the way i frame it in a muslim contexts which i learnt from a christian was Really get our energy energy from heaven versus getting energy from the energy from hell is energy that burns as coal and gas. That's a oil energy that we have to extract in and destroy whole mountainsides to get a little stripper coal. That's energy from hell and from having is wind and solar and when you have that energy heaven presented you have conversation with someone who is like this woman. Virginia one said to me. My great uncle brought me tennessee. See them in an absolute squalor and the community where my family is from. And he said i'm gonna show you what real poverty looks like. This woman grew up with my with my grandmother and she looked me up and down. She said lena your lena's grandchildren and she gave me that. Look like you ain't nothing she's like you don't even go to buy and i was like man. I'm sorry i don't write. But if i could say to her which i didn't get q. I shut up. Just listened to her but the people who the bible is the word. The koran is the word. Let's talk about energy from heaven versus energy compound. This god talk about. So if i'm someone who's absolute rational scientists in this is orientation that i have but this is organizing moment need to connect with as many people as possible. That's a tool to get through people's heads and get get past that that have that sort of like layer and penetrate a little bit so that they can at least listen to me and then we can get into other things. So i think that. That's it's a tool as a vehicle like everyone has to get organized in different ways to engage other people but we have to understand the language that we're all using so that we can get to the core of the issues. While i love that angie from heaven energy from how i liked that a lot after might be used that. That's a good one i if you say if he went there screaming someone some corner. He's at i gave revy that. That's that's a good one but speaking of that you know You know this issue dealing with regards to Our movement and where. We are with the environment i i was. I was speaking actually in long island in new york Not too far from where sean bell been had been killed In for those. Who don't know there was a black lives matter movement before there was a black last latter right movement and so we were dealing with that But i was speaking at an earth day event with State senator sanders out of their out of new york. Oh yeah yeah good. Good good brother. And so he had. He had a van and advocate. Finish speaking a young brother can mean might have been thirteen fourteen in that age range and when he came to me he said. Read if you know Like what you said man. And i wish more environmentalist look like you and But this this is the thing that hit me with all. That's going on with with racial justice in climate as he said this to me he said but i gotta actually request he says. Why do you want to save hails. So bad wow how as d. Yeah that's deep. I mean i remember one of the first conversations. You know around green bean that i had i would go to communities and people would say so what who cares gaas gonna kill destroy dismiss. Anyway you know. I think A scenario kendrick. Lamar has you know. He said the earth is no more once you burn this musher own wa wa wa. I gotta struggle you know like that kind of kind of wailing. I get that. I totally get that. I think it's less about on. I think the best presumptious. You're a person who whether you believe in a higher power not. I think it's been presumptuous. That you one person to action out of the billions and billions and trains of human beings. That have lived in all of existence is going to change something. That's you know is a bit presumptuous. I think in reality. It's a test on you and how you operate in that particular moment you know. It's your choice. In that moment. You are buddhist brothers and sisters will always remind us at passes not existent. The future is a lot is like a inclusion. The only thing you have is the press. Only thing you have is the moment that you're in at that moment right now. and that's why are buddhists. Roses will tell us think thoughts that will create the future. You have this ideas in your head. You know when people talk about in different ways but if we all were resonating in such a way that we were positively thinking about our future then that would manifest into creating a positive future So i think it's like you know you you don't wanna be in a situation where you are contributing to the problem in the presence because you don't know what the future how it will manifest out an ice. That's i always think that. I'm going to try my best in this moment in this time. To sort of do my very best and be speak that truth. I was listening. Recently to a tape of paul rogerson the great paul robeson before giving testimony to congress when they were trying to basically com communist. Whether a communist or not was irrelevant. His statements to them were so clear. So razor sharp so on point that he left no room for them to sort he was like i am not because he was absolutely able to look them in the.
Revisionist History
"paul robeson" Discussed on Revisionist History
"Father political persian. Yes he was what you'd call a parlor pink. He and his friend. Harry civil would fight the revolution in outliving. Roomy they would have these violent political discussion. The women would sit there so disgusted because he's two guys couldn't make a decent living here. They were talking about changing the world. But i realized fairly recently and looking back that those two guys were doing natural my benefits because was one person that room who is listening. That was some me. Helen listened as a teenager. She was a junior counselor at her summer camp. And my new friend. I came to cam. She was beautiful and she got these incredible love letters from radical boyfriend new york that she would let me read that. We jets romantic and political. She took me to to meet him on the nights that he was making a speech from his soapbox in manhattan that was where i was exposed to the young communists the young communist league the white seal the youth branch of the american communist party. Nobody recruited helen. She just walked up and volunteered in the thirties. The young communist league of america has thousands of members the y. c. l. branch in new york was a world unto itself filled with ideas and ashen. They were people going hungry. All over the united states an ongoing moral catastrophe in the american south of vicious war in spain against fascism not to mention him as rise in germany americans were looking for answers and many found them. In the world's biggest communist empire the soviet union i found it on their unfairness of life unbearable and assume that god if it were fixable how wonderful and the fact that was country the soviet union which was really trying to fix. It seemed quite mar with jimmy. First time i stepped on soviet soil. I felt myself a fool. Human being a full human being the black american actor and singer paul robeson then at the height of his fame made a pilgrimage to the mecca of communism and said for the first time in my life. I walk in full human dignity that people who are doing sleeping really out there fighting the good fight with the but the on communists. Helen was now attending brooklyn college volunteering. In a rat infested building for the white seal making sandwiches that the branch could sell to pay the rent i would get out of the kitchen the rats would take over and i could see a. Helen met eleven at summer camp. He was from the bronx. He wanted to be a writer. He followed her into the white c. They got married and moved to los angeles. Had two kids lived up in the hollywood hills. I'll wrote for the movies and television social parables like one thousand nine hundred forty eight technicolor film. The boy with the green hair everywhere. You go people will say they will say. There is the boy with a green hair and then people will ask. Why does he have green hair. We'll tell them. Because i am a war orphan and my green hair is to remind you that war is very bad for children. Must tell all the people. Helen help found a nonprofit theater. In hollywood volunteered ran things. My whole life has been that way. It's always been somebody else. Bill do something you know. I did it and i always did much more batman's asked me. That was story of my life while i was listening to helen. Levitt story of how she came to join the communist party. I couldn't help think of myself at eighteen. The age that she was when she entered the movement just started college. It was the early eighties. I had a poster of ronald reagan on my wall. If you asked me what. I was back then i would have said i was an anticommunist. That was my 'cause. The soviet union had just invaded afghanistan defender and the russian attackers fought bitterly for almost four hours and according to the afghan source casualties on both sides were heavy. It was holding much of eastern europe hostage. Poland now under martial law is sealed off from the outside world britain america and other western nations are watching. The soviet union apparently wasn't involved but from the background. They approved the summer after my sophomore year. I did a journalism internship in washington dc where we were required to do a research project. Mine was on how many people have been killed by communism. I spent the summer in the library of congress trying to track down who was killed in what government manufactured famine or who died in what internment camp. I was horrified. Helen levitt got caught up in the communist movement at the same age. I got caught up in the anticommunist movement and for the same reason because eighteen is the age that we look for a cause bigger than ourselves. It's funny. I haven't thought about that time in my life for yours. Except when i listened to helen levitt and did all came rushing back the brightest and most beautiful were leading young radicals. I mean they were the.
Revisionist History
"paul robeson" Discussed on Revisionist History
"Father political person that all. Yes he was what you'd call a parlor pink. He and his friend. Harry civil would fight the revolution outliving. Roomy they have these file and political discussion. The women would sit there so disgusted because these two guys couldn't make a decent living here. They were talking about changing the world. But i realized fairly recently looking back that those two guys were doing that for my benefits because that was one person who was listening. That was me. Helen listened as a teenager. She was a junior counselor at her summer camp. And my new friend. I came to cam. She was beautiful and she got these incredible of lettuce from a radical boyfriend new york that she would let me read. That were just so romantic and political. She took me to meet him on the nights that he was making a speech. From the soapbox in manhattan. That was where i was exposed to the young communists. The young communist league the white sale the youth branch of the american communist party. Nobody recruited helen. She just walked up and volunteered in the thirties. The young communist league of america had thousands of members. The wiessee branch in new york was a world unto itself filled with ideas and passion. They were people going hungry. All of the united states an ongoing moral catastrophe american south of vicious warren spain against fascism not to mention him as in germany americans were looking for answers and many found them in the world's biggest communist empire the soviet union at founded on their unfairness of life unbearable and assume that god if it were fixable how wonderful and the fact that there was a country the soviet union which was really trying to fix it seemed quite mar was to me first time as i stepped on soviet soil i felt myself a full human being a full human being the black american actor and singer. Paul robeson then at the height of his fame made a pilgrimage to mecca of communism and said for the first time in my life. I walk in full human dignity that people who are doing sling really out there fighting the good fight the communists. Helen was now attending brooklyn college volunteering in a rat infested building for the why sale making sandwiches the branch could sell to pay the rent. Drive get out of the kitchen. The rats would take over. And i could see them. Helen met l. levin camp. He was from the bronx. He wanted to be a writer. He followed her into the wise l. They got married and moved to los angeles. Had two kids lived up in the hollywood hills. Our of the movies and television social parables like the nineteen forty eight technicolor film. The boy with green hair everywhere you go people will say they will say there is a boy with green hair and then people will ask. Why does he have green hair. So you will tell them. Because i am a war-orphaned often and my green hair is to remind you that war is very bad for children. Must tell all the people. Helen help found a nonprofit theater. In hollywood volunteered ran things. My whole life has been that way. It's always been. Somebody asked me to do something you know i did it and i always did much more than they asked me. That was the story of my life while i was listening to help them. The story of how she came to join the communist party. I couldn't help but think of myself at eighteen. The age that she was when she entered the movement. I just started college. It was the early eighties. I had a poster of ronald reagan on my wall. If you asked me what. I was back then i would have said i was an anticommunist. That was my 'cause. The soviet union had just invaded afghanistan. They outgunned defender and the russian attackers bitterly. Almost four hours and according to the afghan source casualties on both sides were heavy. He was holding much of eastern europe hostage. Poland now under martial law is sealed off from the outside world britain america and other western nations watching the soviet union apparently wasn't involved but from the background approved this summer after my sophomore year. I did a journalism internship in washington dc where we were required to do a research project. Mine was on how many people had been killed by communism. I spent the summer in the library of congress trying to track down who was killed in what government manufactured famine or who died in what internment camp. I was horrified. Helen levitt got caught up in the communist movement at the same age. I got caught up in the anticommunist movement and for the same reason because eighteen is the age that we look for cause bigger than ourselves. Funny i haven't thought about that time in my life for yours. Except when i listened to helen levitt and did all came rushing back they bridas and most beautiful were leading young radicals the.
NEWS 88.7
"paul robeson" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Throughout the mid to late 19 thirties African American performers made guest appearances on popular network variety shows. But few commanded as much excitement as the great singer actor Paul Robeson. In this 1935 appearance on the popular shells chateau of series, Robson played a powerful, arrogant chief islands. The drums lie. There will be no war for the follows for 50 moons that we had peace. And peace We will keep. We do not need war and war we will not have You want your fathers and brothers killed. You want your wives and daughters carried away into slavery by the men of the north country. Robin Guler. Have you forgotten the last time we beat the war drums? Have you forgotten your son? He was a dignified, warm thinking. Feeling conscientious man. His purpose in life was to bring his art as many people as he could reach and to work for. Democratic ideals. Former CBS producer Norman Corwin worked with Robson on many occasions. But their most significant radio association was in November 1939 broadcasts of Corwin's pursuit of evidence series. Their robes and performed the ballad for Americans and this song and Ropes. His performance took the country by storm. And 76. The sky was red.
Radiolab
"paul robeson" Discussed on Radiolab
"And came out victorious. Not only for himself before so many people that look like him. He was a shining example for the possibilities of america. It's interesting when he came back to the. Us having all claim in europe then they would hire him. You know that qualified him finally and he was the first black artist who be recorded by labels. He's very picky though. He didn't wanna record unless they pay them a lot of money. Oh damn right after the what. He's gone through but he could be a tough customer. Tim says even when the white owned labels wanted to record him he listened to the playbacks of these recordings. he wasn't satisfied with them And he said i don't want them issued and he said well we won't pay you and he said i don't care well. There was a recording contract that he had with the british recording company where he had recorded gorgeous -ly but because the deal wasn't a good deal financially he cut the masters like the original recording took so large pair of sheers and cut them into. He broke the masters. He was such a purist that he wasn't going to do anything that didn't meet his standards. Anything for which he wasn't properly paid Which is one of the reasons. We don't have much film of him. Because others paul robeson people like that made a lot of films later on especially when sound came in and hayes said Only if you pay me a huge amount of money. I find it interesting that he was so self possessed that he in a way possessed himself out of memory. It's like he vanished himself. Sorta of like harry but for a different reason and also i think chat that black people at work for so little for free for so long that they were so determined not to allow somebody to make money off of their backs anymore. By my estimation. I've done really the only study of this part of his career. He was able to press. Maybe five hundred copies of each of these. Tim is referring to a set of recordings which were some of the only ones that still exist from his prime because there are so few copies made of them binding these records. They're very rare when they come up for auction. They're very expensive. But over the years i've been able to assemble most of them. Probably the largest collection of them's only nine total one. Nobody's ever found the other aid of god either in the original or tape. Somebody sent me as we were talking with him about how hard he has had to work to find rowlands records. I kept thinking about that idea of roland. hayes intentionally. cutting the masters not allowing recordings of himself to get out into the future to people like ten people like us unless he got paid and all of that took on a whole new meaning when we ended up speaking to one of his colleagues a guy that you also heard an episode. one a bill doggett. I am an african american performing arts. Historian early sound are this bill. Doggett liked him is a historian an educator and a record collector. He has a pretty large collection of black swan records. Actually the six largest in the world. According to his estimation reveille conifer career and he shares them online. This is from youtube videos. Only this is the very first. According by an african american soprano. Let's take a listen in talking with bill ungrateful. I had the collection. I've amassed but there are no african americans in the field. The question naturally came up. Why as we were looking for record collectors did. The field seemed to be overwhelmingly white. Like bill was the first black collector. We found as an african american specialists in this world. What i have seen the legacy of ownership of the idea of ownership of cultural appropriation by white male collectors who have come to fetish cise black men who not black women. The blue not the black women who sing blues but the black men who recorded at the dawn of of the records. He told us about this one example. The most famous white collector in black leased music. Famously i think is the most in two thousand fourteen fifteen sixteen thousand dollars for this one seventy eight rpm records actually when we checked ebay. The final price was thirty. Seven thousand for one record is a record of a black man singing in the nineteen twenties. Who not only himself his family but his entire ancestors had never seen sixteen thousand dollars but yet a white man who has an infinitesimal amount of money he himself and others have created this frenzy. This tornado of high-pricing that is reminiscent for me of a slave auction. Where how much can i get for this black man his while this while pitt fourteen thousand. No i will be fifteen but this is a black man's music a black man's record. He got twenty five dollars or thirty dollars for the session. But now you know this white guy owns owns you..
The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani
"paul robeson" Discussed on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani
"Had another baby and he wants to be a dad right now. So next man up marvin tori maybe not the most competitive in terms of what we're expecting inside the octagon exact opposite outside of. Im sarli entertained by this. Entire week of marvin taurean. Israel's on trash-talking. I'm not gonna live. I wasn't quite sold on it. But i am so here for israel decided arm toy part to based off of that press. Count so. I wanna ask you about that. Because marvin tories ahah is he unique cat. An anchorman gets angry a lot angry quickly. Tom and izzie is someone who seems to revel in needling human beings like that. We saw with paolo. Costa's well you were there for that press conference. That was a wild scene. This this phoenix crowd. We've seen it in the suns games like they've been over the top and they were like that on thursday. What do you make of this whole rivalry. does it feel real to you. Does it feel genuine. Does it feel one-sided like what do you make of the fight before the fight that we're seeing play out in front of. I wish i could tell you what marvin tory said or israel said at the press conference with the crowd was so raucous that they drowned out. Both men like this is awesome. Which i can see here. What they're saying. I just need to scream at each other and find fish. Fight on the stage but I've been entertained by the embedded countdowns and everything is doing his best to sell a fight. I really think the the fact that english is in his first language. I think adds to like you. He's so angry and so frazzled. There can't figure out what he wants to say. But it's just anger anger. There was a moment where he said something israel outside and was just like what like. What did you say that in. Marvin tories responses get new ears and i was like. Oh marvin i. I honestly love it. I think is fantastic. I think it's over the best trash-talking ever in terms of like comical timing. I don't think he's supposed to be like that. But i love everything about it. I've been entertained by it. I don't know if it's one sided or not because marvin hasn't stopped. It hasn't stopped four years. You could probably find a thousand interviews on the internet about martin tori talking about that. I fight i stayed. I was on the same floor as him. In jacksonville and paul robeson fell out. I heard more.
Quizbeard weekly trivia quiz
"paul robeson" Discussed on Quizbeard weekly trivia quiz
"Case amount says for today's quiz for you. Round woman celebrities born in the eighteen hundreds number one the author that wrote sketches by balls and born in eighteen twelve with charles. Dickens number two Bulletin italian father and french mother sir. John bobby early was a conductor. Not a bus conductor classical orchestral conductor number three the american sharp shooter. Who's a major attraction in buffalo. Bill's wild west show with annie oakley before the bass-baritone concert artist and actor famous for old man river. In show bose was paul robeson and number five born in eighteen. Fifty four oscar wilde wrote about the execution of charles thomas woodbridge in the ballad of reading gaol round two is the railways round number six the longest railway line in the world running from moscow to flat. Vostok is the trans siberian railway number. Seven seven stations in the uk with numbers in their name but only one has an overground and underground line. That is seven sisters number. Eight based on passenger use. The city with the world busiest train station is tokyo. You could travel on the gun trained in australia number. Ten the european capital that has a train station featuring those sculptures of granite men known as lansing. Character carriers is helsinki round. Three was former placenames. Number eleven the island country known of formerly known as ceylon is sri lanka number twelve the landlocked african nation formerly known as abbess senior is number thirteen. The russian city that previously went by petrograd and leningrad saint petersburg number fourteen the former name of the democratic republic of the congo zaire. A number fifteen saigon officially changed. Its name in nine hundred. Seventy five to ho cheam in city round. Four was the general knowledge round number sixteen. The satirical comic that features differ bacon felix and his amazing underpants roger. The man on the. Telly is viz number. Seventeen in the netflix drama. The crown joshua connor place prince charles number eighteen madonna was born in the nineteen fifties in nineteen fifty eight to be exact number nineteen according to jam. Barrie's peter pan. Captain hook had been educated at eton college and number twenty. There are ten thousand square meters in one hectare. A hectare is square. One hundred meters by a hundred liters finally ran five. Was the sports films. Round number twenty one. in happy gilmore. The title character learns to play golf after previously participating in ice hockey number twenty two will smith portrayed muhammad ali in two thousand and one by graphical drama number twenty three the nine hundred one film starring sylvester stallone. Michael caine pele. Bobby moore nausea delays as allied prisoners. War was escaped to victory number. Twenty four the focus of the films. The color of money and the hustler is the game of pool. A number twenty five film. Nine thousand nine hundred one based on two british truck athletes harold abrahams and eric del competing in the nine hundred and twenty four olympics his chariots of fire..
Podcast RadioViajera
"paul robeson" Discussed on Podcast RadioViajera
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KQED Radio
"paul robeson" Discussed on KQED Radio
"This is one A. We've got some great music coming up later in the hour. But before we get to that, let's return to my conversation with actor Delroy Lindo. He's part of the cast of the five Bloods. That's a film drama set in Vietnam and co produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film's plot follows a group of four aging Vietnam vet who returned to the country in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader as well as the treasure they buried while serving there. On screen the relationships between all four Phil's very real, in particular between Paul the Trump loving that played by Lindo and David, his estranged son, played by Jonathan Majors. We're here for the goal. Don't lie. Going after the gold. I read those e mails. You gotta choose better passwords 123 full Come on, man. Bad. You want, David? An equal share for help you find it. Helton. Theodore does find out about this. You'll go back to the crib empty handed. See you just blew jarred as gangster now. After everything you put me through, I say you get in a basement bargain. I swear to you, I swear to God, I did not know Jonathan Prior to working with him. We had dinner together with Spike Spike Isaiah. Jonathan myself had dinner together. Maybe I don't know. A month before we were to leave for Thailand. We had dinner. And then we were all in Thailand, beginning the work. So I was not worried. About how we would work together. And we did not discuss how we would work together. I could be wrong, but I don't recall. It may have been one or two specific. Decisions that we made about our history together. It's father and son. Other than that. Johnson. Did his prep And came to work better the work. I did my prep I came to work ready to work, and we just worked together. And the relationship and the vulnerability that you see. Happened organically. One thing I will say. In addition to that is that part of what helped forge the relationship force the vulnerability the various aspects of emotional aspects of the relationship that you see in the film. Part of with for help to forge that was the equally organic Relationship that we as actors, and I mean all of us. We forced this bond off screen. And that happened just as a result of the fact that we are we're staying in the same hotel. We spent time. Away from the camera just because we were in the same hotel and we would talk. About everything we talk. As men. As human beings on the planet and his black man, we would just commune. Constantly. We had some of them. From my point of view. We had some of the most Stimulating. Hilarious little barbershop talk, perhaps? Yeah, it never It never got to, you know, playing the dozens, and it never got there. But it was. It was just a deep seated Communing. And certainly Jonathan and I were part of that because we were part of the group. And so we were able to. And I've said this to various of your colleagues, but I can't Say it enough. Because it was so rich. It was so rich. And you know what? We may not ever connect like that again. You know, I mean, on some level, it doesn't matter because we will always have that experience the experience of Bloods. You mentioned Chadwick Boseman and this was one of the last films. He was in before his untimely his untimely death. And one of the themes this film explores. It's um really unique ways, I think is grief. And how we deal with grief. Having been through the experience you've just described. With these other black men. And to have his death follow. I wonder if you're thinking about about grief any differently these days? It's a fair question. It's a good question. And the short answer is no, I'm not. But I'm not being facetious. Certainly have I have a broader understanding of life. And so I would say, rather than Thinking about grief, which frankly, scares me. Scary shit. Scares me. Sure. Sure it does. I'm thinking about I should have said that to you. You were a journalist. Is this safe space? Yeah, right. Jumped all over there. That scares you. Well, tell me about that, because I think a lot of us are thinking about grief right now and You know it. I've been thinking about grief, a lot of late, in part because of Fairly recent losses in my life. And I guess it grief never scared me but suffering did Oh, hey, man. Hey, man. I'm sorry. Continue. I cut you up going. No, no, no. That That was the end of my thought. It wasn't the world that scared me. It was the suffering. Sure. First of all, Amen to that right? I think that the reason that I am trying to focus on all that I am more connected to the dynamics of living. Is because I tend to be a cynical individual anyhow. And I can be I have been known to be a glass half empty, kind of an individual therefore, I don't want to further by thinking contemplating. About grief. I don't I think I think it's a protective mechanism on my part because the fact of the matter is There is so much to grieve. Huh? So much to grieve. But I think as a defense mechanism I need to You find Abel? Give myself a reprieve from that, because I could I could I could imprison myself with that. On guy can't afford it. I have a son to raise. I have family. I have things to do. And again. I'm not trying to be glib here and I wanted to. I just want to say one thing, but that's occurring to me right now. Many people have asked me about Chadwick. And I could say many things about Chadwick. And as I was speaking to you, and specifically as I was speaking to you, as you were speaking to me about grief, I remembered something. And that is that at the Chadwick past Receive. Chadwick, some people Simone. His wife. Gotta email saying that They were having a service for Chadwick, and they wanted me to come. Was not able to be there because I literally literally received this. Email when I was on a plane about to go to start my next job, but What was significant and beautiful about my being invited to participate in These service, the going home Service for Chadwick. What was significant about that for me is that it spoke to the connection. That he and I apparently had forged that I didn't quite know. I mean, I appreciated working with him. Champion was incredibly gracious toward my son. We had dinner before he left Thailand. But the fact that his family would reach out to me and invite me to be a part of Chad weeks going home service. When I had just known and worked with Chadwick for a number of just a few weeks. Spoke volumes to me about the connection that he valued. From our coming together and that I certainly value from our coming together, And that's a positive. Does that make sense? What I make sense? That makes absolute sense. So I'm speaking to you from Washington, D C. You're in Oakland. We both know what played out here on January. 60. My God. And having played Paul this, you know, he's trump loving veteran. And watching the news and I'm also thinking about your work here on the good fight and some of the things you explore. On that television series. Where is your mind? Right now, when you think about the intersection Of art and politics. If ever The intersection of art and politics. If ever I think it was Paul Robeson, or maybe it was the main hands Berry, who said that the artist.
Encyclopedia Womannica
Storytellers: Lorraine Hansberry
"Today's storyteller was a playwright and activist. Who stories centered. African american working class families despite tragically short career. She became the first black woman to have a play produced on broadway half a century later her work remains one of the most celebrated snapshots of black struggles and black joy. Here's the story of lorraine hands berry lorraine hands berry was born on may nineteenth nineteen thirty on the south side of chicago. Her father carl. Augustus was a prominent figure. Within the city's black community having founded one of the first african american banks growing up lorraine and her three older siblings played host to a number of famous people including langston hughes. Wabc boys duke ellington and olympic gold. Medalist jesse owens. Despite their middle class status and cultural connections the hands berries were still subject to chicago's deeply ingrained. Housing segregation agreements known as restrictive covenants were widespread throughout the city. White property owners could collectively agree not to sell to african americans. This practice created a ghetto known as the black belt which ran through the south side when lorraine was eight years old. Her father secretly bought a home. In one of the so-called restricted heads in nineteen thirty seven when the family moved in a white mob attacked a brick was thrown through the window narrowly missing lorraine the local homeowners association filed an injunction for the hands berries to vacate lorraine her siblings were chased spat and beaten during their walks to and from school the supreme court of illinois doubled down on the legality of the restrictive covenant. And the hands. Berries were forced out of their home eventually the. Us supreme court overruled this ruling on a technicality. Thirty blocks subsequently opened up to black families across the south side while this ruling and the hands fight did not outlaw restrictive covenants. It did signal. The beginning of the end for the practice lorraine attended. Chicago's englewood high school where she became interested in theatre. She initially attended the university of wisconsin. Where she cut her teeth with the communist party but left after two years in one thousand nine hundred fifty lorraine moved to new york to be a writer by nineteen fifty one lorraine had found a home in harlem and began socializing with many of the great thinkers who had once visited her family back in chicago. She started writing for paul robeson freedom a progressive newspaper at a protest against racial discrimination at new york university lorraine met robert number off a jewish writer. They married at her family home in chicago. In nineteen fifty three in nineteen. Six robert co wrote the hit song. Cindy oh cindy it's prophets allowed lorraine to stop working to focus on writing. She began developing a play that she initially called. The crystal stair langston hughes poem mother to son she would later changed the name to a raisin in the sun. This too was from a langston hughes poem called harlem. What happens to a dream deferred. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun or faster like a sore and then run a raisin in the sun centers on a black working class family in chicago south side as they try to improve their financial situation. The patriarch of the family has died and a ten thousand dollar insurance payout is imminent they the money to buy a house in the cheaper all white neighborhood nearby to they use it to invest in a liquor store and education lorraine based many of the characters on the families who rented from her father and with whom she attended high school the cast safer one character was entirely black lorraine was in her twenties and the play itself dealt with racism life in chicago's black belt and the pain of assimilation into white culture topics that were considered risky for the predominantly white theater. Going crowd it took over a year to raise enough money to put the play up. When it debuted in nineteen fifty-nine a raisin in the sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on broadway and the first to be led by an african american director lorraine was twenty nine years old. The play was an almost instant. Hit the new york drama critics circle named it. The best play of the year just five months after its broadway debut arisen in the son of in london's west end in nineteen sixty one. A film starring much of the original cast was released and several of the actors received golden globe. Nominations perhaps the most important element of the play success was that entailing box stories. Lorraine also make theater accessible and previously unimaginable ways as the writer. James baldwin noted. I had never in my life seen so many black people in the theater and the reason was that never before in the entire history of the american theatre had so much of the truth of black people's lives and seen on the stage. Black people had ignored the theatre because the theatre had always ignored them lorraine would go on to finish in stage. Just one other. Play the sign in sidney bruce. Deans window about a jewish intellectual the play which explored themes of homosexuality and the bohemian lifestyle. Debuted to mixed reviews in nineteen sixty four. It ran for just over one hundred performances closing on january twelfth. Nineteen sixty five. That's same day. Lorraine hanbury died of pancreatic cancer. She was thirty four years old. After lorraine's death. Her ex husband robert had several of her plays produced posthumously to be young gifted and black became an autobiographical work. Drawing on lorraine's letters interviews and journal entries the title came from a nineteen sixty four speech of lorraine's when she spoke to the winners of a united negro fund writing competition. She said speech though. It be thrilling marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times it is doubly so w dynamic to be young gifted and black