I originally tried harder but my computer got turned off while I was asleep so lost all my progress and am frankly out of time, sorry its not up to the usual standard of effortposting

So thank you all for reading

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Avery Brooks, known for playing Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, performed a one-man show about Robeson and in an interview with ArtsATL stated:

    When we think about Paul Robeson, we have to think about not just a magnificent American, but a world figure. He had audiences with heads of state. He was talking about apartheid in 1947. He talked about the embracing of mankind, the elimination of oppression, which we are looking at right now. I can celebrate all those things. This is not a mimicking of Paul Robeson. This is a portrait of one artist to another.

    A one of a kind talent and life.