Joel Whitney: That Time the KKK Tried to Kill Paul Robeson
The "Finks" author joins Robert Scheer to discuss a little-told episode in the socialist actor and singer’s life and why it’s seemingly been erased from our collective American memory.
The "Finks" author joins Robert Scheer to discuss a little-told episode in the socialist actor and singer’s life and why it’s seemingly been erased from our collective American memory.
Heroic dissidents are demonized, marginalized, physically and psychologically destroyed, or assassinated by the American ruling class.
Boxing, the historian Gerald Horne argues in his engaging and meticulously researched new book, was effectively weaponized by Blacks in the battle against white supremacy.