Heroic dissidents are demonized, marginalized, physically and psychologically destroyed, or assassinated by the American ruling class. Before the persecution of Julian Assange, before the FBI assassination of Fred Hampton and Malcolm X, before the murder of Martin Luther King, there was the relentless campaign to silence the activist, actor, and singer Paul Robeson. Robeson, the most internationally known and revered Black American of his day, was a socialist and a militant who stood with the crucified of the earth.<\/p>\n
Historian Gerald Horne is author of the biography \u201cPaul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary,\u201d and is the Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. In this episode of\u00a0The Chris Hedges Report, he joins Chris Hedges to discuss the life of \u201cthe most blacklisted performer in America,\u201d linking the persecution of Paul Robeson directly to the persecution of Julian Assange, held today in a high security prison in London where his mental and physical health\u2014like Robeson\u2019s at the end of his life\u2014is in serious decline.<\/p>\n
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