Here is “a truly wonderful interview on ABC, listen to Jeff Sparrow talking about Paul Robeson and the depth and breadth of his humanity. Listen right to the end, and on a good PA system if possible, when they play Robeson singing “Old Man River” in 1936 – which should bring tears to the hardest of eyes
Jeff Sparrow, author of No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson, joined Indira Naidoo on ABC’s Nightlife to explain the background to the Peekskill Riots in This Week in History. – Ross Gwyhter
