via Black Agenda Report.

Paul Robeson was the son of an escaped slave, who became an all-American athlete, and one of the first three black graduates of Columbia University Law School. After discovering that he would only be allowed to research the cases white lawyers presented, he began a career as an actor on stage and movies, a singer, and political activist. Robeson wrote and spoke more than a dozen languages fluently, and sang in ten more. While earning six and seven figures a year in the Depression as an artist, he began openly raising money for political causes, and by the late 1940s he was a full time fighter for the rights of black and oppressed people. Robeson was severely punished for his activism, but remained defiant and unrepentant to the end of his days.

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