In 1981, an industry newcomer named Jubilant Sykes released his debut album, Number of the Lord, with Light Records, the same ...

On Thursday, September 4 I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion entitled “The Peekskill Riots: Then & Now.” The panel was part of an ongoing program that was inaugurated in 2024 by a ...

Paul Robeson is a great baritone, a good actor (Othello). He is also a Communist-liner. “There is no such thing as a nonpolitical artist,” he explained at a rally of Communist war veterans in ...

This is FRESH AIR. Bass-baritone Paul Robeson was one of the most popular figures of the 20th century, and also one of the most controversial. He died in 1976 at the age of 77, leaving a huge imprint ...