Paul Robeson: 7 books

The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist. The first volume of this major biography breaks new ground. The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth...

The eagerly awaited second volume of Paul Robeson Jr.'s acclaimed biography of his father, the legendary singer, actor, and social activist. The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. In this...

ROY DeSILVA had everything - fame as a best-selling mystery writer, a loving and faithful wife and three beautiful daughters. One day it all came crashing down. His daughter is murdered, his wife ceases to talk and then she is murdered. Roy stops writing, obsessed with finding the killer.Roy decides...

A ten-year practical joke ends, but not how it was supposed to end in Portland, Maine. A 99-year-old man saves the life of a young girl and a story about the heroic effort is wanted by a 30-some female reporter.When everything seems to be going wrong the reporter finds out that everything is not what it seems. Based on a true story.

Robeson's international achievements as a singer and actor in starring roles on stage and screen made him the most celebrated black American of his day, but his outspoken criticism of racism in the United States, his strong support of African independence, and his fascination with the Soviet Union...

In the tradition of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, Robeson’s A Black Way of Seeing melds history and analysis in a sweeping panorama of the present moment as we know it to be—scathing in its understanding of why Black empowerment has failed and prescient in its articulation of what it will take for Black Americans to be agents of change for the country as a whole.

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...