The Chris Hedges Report: Gerald Horne on the unrelentingly radical life of Paul Robeson

The Chris Hedges Report: Gerald Horne on the unrelentingly radical life of Paul Robeson

Historian Gerald Horne discusses how the legacy of Paul Robeson illustrates the lengths to which the American empire will go to destroy and silence its most powerful critics.

The Chris Hedges Report: Gerald Horne on the Unrelenting Radical Life of Paul Robeson

In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Gerald Horne joins Chris hedges to discuss the life of “the most blacklisted performer in America,” 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—like Robeson's at the end of his life—is in serious decline.