Editing Paul Robeson (section)

==Legacy and honors==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-Z0414-148, Berlin, David Silberstein, Franz Loeser.jpg|thumb|upright|The Robeson holdings in the archive of the Academy of the Arts of the [[German Democratic Republic]], 1981]]
Early in his life, Robeson was one of the most influential participants in the [[Harlem Renaissance]].<ref>{{harvnb|Finkelman|2007|p=363}}; cf. {{harvnb|Dorinson|2004|p=74}}</ref> His achievements in sport and culture were all the more impressive given the barriers of racism he had to surmount.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Charles K.|editor-last=Ross|title=Race and Sport: The Struggle for Equality on and Off the Field|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WDJ9Q1KDkZIC&pg=PA149|date=2005|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1578068975|last1=Miller|first1=Patrick B.|chapter=Muscular assimilationism: sport and the paradoxes of racial reform|pages=149–150|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-date=January 5, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105031100/https://books.google.com/books?id=WDJ9Q1KDkZIC&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Robeson brought [[Negro spirituals]] into the American mainstream.{{sfn|Duberman|1989|p=81}} He was among the first artists to refuse to perform to segregated audiences. Historian [[Penny Von Eschen]] wrote that while McCarthyism curbed American anti-colonialist politics in the 1940s such as Robeson's, "the [African independence movements] of the late 1950s and 1960s would vindicate his anti-colonial [agenda]."{{sfn|Von Eschen|2014|p=185}}

In 1945, he received the [[Spingarn Medal]] from the [[NAACP]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naacp.org/pages/spingarn-medal-winners|title=Spingarn Medal Winners: 1915 to Today|work=naacp.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802063355/http://www.naacp.org/pages/spingarn-medal-winners|archive-date=August 2, 2014|access-date=September 17, 2012}}</ref> Several public and private establishments he was associated with have been landmarked,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/LIST11.pdf|title=List of National Historic Landmarks by State|publisher=National Historic Landmarks Program|page=71|date=January 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105084558/http://www.cr.nps.gov/nhl/designations/Lists/LIST11.pdf|archive-date=November 5, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=January 14, 2012}}</ref> or named after him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/artgallery/|title=Paul Robeson Galleries|access-date=April 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805194126/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/artgallery/|archive-date=August 5, 2011|url-status=dead}}; cf. [http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/robeson_lib Paul Robeson Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329003100/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/robeson_lib/ |date=March 29, 2008 }}, {{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S07/40/11C40/index.xml|title=Princeton University – Ceremony to honor Robeson, Jan. 20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123051559/http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S07/40/11C40/index.xml|archive-date=November 23, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=January 25, 2011}} [http://prcc.rutgers.edu/ The Paul Robeson Cultural Center] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701064650/http://prcc.rutgers.edu/ |date=July 1, 2010 }}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110807132009/http://studentaffairs.psu.edu/cultural/faq.shtml Frequently Asked Questions]</ref>

In 1950, Robeson was awarded the International Peace Prize for his ''Songs of Peace''.<ref name=":Gao" />{{Rp|page=94}}

His efforts to end [[Apartheid in South Africa]] were posthumously rewarded in 1978 by the [[United Nations General Assembly]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv01538/04lv01539/05lv01562/06lv01571.htm |title=1978 |last=O'Malley |first=Padraig |publisher=Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory |access-date=February 12, 2012 |archive-date=July 10, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710093903/https://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv01538/04lv01539/05lv01562/06lv01571.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist]]'' won an Academy Award for best short documentary in 1980.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1980|title=1980|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=October 2, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402002939/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1980|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1995, he was named to the [[College Football Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Nancy |last=Armour |title=Brown, Robeson inducted into college football hall |date=August 26, 1995 |publisher=[[Reid MacCluggage]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K5hGAAAAIBAJ&dq=robeson%20and%20brown%20inducted%20in%20hall&pg=1186%2C4831956 |work=[[The Day (New London)|The Day]] |page=C6 |access-date=May 29, 2020 |archive-date=July 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728044557/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=K5hGAAAAIBAJ&dq=robeson+and+brown+inducted+in+hall&pg=1186%2C4831956 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the centenary of his birth, which was commemorated around the world,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu/robeson/peacearch.html|title=Robeson Peace Arch Concert Anniversary|website=Cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu|access-date=April 1, 2014|archive-date=June 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630074624/http://www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu/robeson/peacearch.html|url-status=live}}</ref> he was awarded a [[Grammy Award|Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award]],<ref>{{cite news|title=From the Valley of Obscurity, Robeson's Baritone Rings Out; 22 Years After His Death, Actor-Activist Gets a Grammy|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/25/arts/valley-obscurity-robeson-s-baritone-rings-22-years-after-his-death-actor.html|work=The New York Times|date=February 25, 1998|access-date=February 18, 2017|archive-date=March 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309113302/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/25/arts/valley-obscurity-robeson-s-baritone-rings-22-years-after-his-death-actor.html|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Paul Robeson centennial|magazine=Ebony|date=May 1, 1998|volume=53|issue=7|pages=110–114|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyO8WRXttnoC&pg=PA110|access-date=August 26, 2018|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728044546/https://books.google.com/books?id=lyO8WRXttnoC&pg=PA110|url-status=live}}; cf. {{harvnb|Wade-Lewis|2007|page=108}}</ref> Robeson is also a member of the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaterhalloffame.org/members.html#QR|title=Theater Hall of Fame &#124; The Official Website &#124; Members &#124; Preserve the Past • Honor the Present • Encourage the Future|website=Theaterhalloffame.org|access-date=May 22, 2014|archive-date=August 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824183552/http://www.theaterhalloffame.org/members.html#QR|url-status=live}}</ref>

{{As of|2011}}, the run of ''Othello'' starring Robeson was the longest-running production of a Shakespeare play ever staged on Broadway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2016/02/26/a-contract-for-othello-paul-robeson/|title=A contract for ''Othello''|date=February 26, 2016|website=Shakespeare & Beyond|language=en-US|access-date=October 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016204413/https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2016/02/26/a-contract-for-othello-paul-robeson/|archive-date=October 16, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> He received a [[Tony Award|Donaldson Award]] for his performance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri203.html|title=Paul Robeson as Othello|website=[[Library of Congress]]|date=July 29, 2010|archive-date=April 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100428025429/https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri203.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> His Othello was characterised by Michael A. Morrison in 2011 as a high point in Shakespearean theatre in the 20th century.{{sfn|Morrison|2011|pp=114–140}} In 1930, while performing ''Othello'' in London, Robeson was painted by the British artist [[Glyn Philpot]]; this portrait was sold in 1944 under the title ''Head of a Negro'' and thereafter thought lost, but was rediscovered by Simon Martin, the director of the [[Pallant House Gallery]], for an exhibition held there in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/glyn-philpot-flesh-and-spirit/|title=Pallant House Gallery: Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit|access-date=April 14, 2022|archive-date=April 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410140650/https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/glyn-philpot-flesh-and-spirit/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Robeson archives exist at the [[Akademie der Künste|Academy of Arts]];<ref name="Hu-berlin.de">{{cite web|url=http://www.hu-berlin.de/pr/publikationen/humboldt/201001/geschichte/paul-robeson-zu-gast-unter-den-linden|title=Paul Robeson zu Gast Unter den Linden – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin|language=de|publisher=Hu-berlin.de|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=July 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718061227/http://www.hu-berlin.de/pr/publikationen/humboldt/201001/geschichte/paul-robeson-zu-gast-unter-den-linden|url-status=dead}}</ref> Howard University,{{sfn|Duberman|1989|p=557}} and the [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb16670166?lang=eng|title=Paul Robeson Archive|publisher=New York Public Libraries|location=New York|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728044553/http://browse.nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb16670166?lang=eng|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2010, [[Susan Robeson]] launched a project at Swansea University, supported the [[Welsh Assembly]], to create an online learning resource in her grandfather's memory.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-10853209|title=Paul Robeson's granddaughter at Ebbw Vale eisteddfod|work=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=August 12, 2016|date=August 3, 2010|last1=Prior|first1=Neil|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805134904/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-10853209|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1976, the apartment building on Edgecombe Avenue in the [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] section of Manhattan where Robeson lived during the early 1940s was officially renamed the [[Paul Robeson Residence]], and declared a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name=Gomez>{{cite web|url={{NHLS url|id=76001248}}|title=National Register of Historical Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Paul Robeson Residence|access-date=January 16, 2012|last=Gomez|first=Lynn|date=January 16, 2012|publisher=United States Department of the Interior: National Park Service|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/64kC75iuO?url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/76001248.pdf|archive-date=January 16, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/ny1.htm|title=We Shall Overcome – Paul Robeson Home|first=Ginny|last=Finch|website=Nps.gov|access-date=May 20, 2016|archive-date=January 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114215827/http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/ny1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=nrhpphotos>{{Cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NHLS/Photos/76001248.pdf|title=Paul Robeson Residence Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1976|website=Npgallery.nps.gov|access-date=March 10, 2018|archive-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107145508/https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NHLS/Photos/76001248.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1993, the building was designated a New York City landmark as well.<ref name="guide2nyc">{{cite nycland}}, p. 211.</ref> Edgecombe Avenue itself was later co-named Paul Robeson Boulevard.

In 1978, the [[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union]] announced that the [[Latvian Shipping Company]] had named one of its new 40,000-ton tankers ''Paul Robeson'' in honor of the singer. The agency said the ship's crew established a Robeson museum aboard the tanker.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tanker Named 'Paul Robeson'|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_OkgAAAAIBAJ&pg=5046%2C162623|newspaper=[[The Hour (newspaper)|The Hour]]|agency=[[UPI]]|date=June 1, 1978|access-date=June 27, 2015|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728044644/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_OkgAAAAIBAJ&pg=5046%2C162623|url-status=live}}</ref> After Robeson's death, a street in the [[Prenzlauer Berg]] district of [[East Berlin]] was renamed Paul-Robeson-Straße, and the street name remains in reunified Berlin. An East German stamp featuring Robeson's face was issued with the text "For Peace Against Racism, Paul Robeson 1898–1976."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Farber|first=Paul M.|title=A Wall of Our Own : an American History of the Berlin Wall|date=2020|isbn=978-1-4696-5510-9|location=Chapel Hill|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|pages=196|oclc=1141094001}}</ref>

In 2001, ''[[(Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson]]'', a public artwork by American artist Allen Uzikee Nelson, was dedicated in the [[Petworth (Washington, D.C.)|Petworth]] neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

In 2002, a [[blue plaque]] was unveiled by [[English Heritage]] on the house in [[Branch Hill, Hampstead]] where Robeson lived in 1929–30.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://untoldlondon.org.uk/articles/read/english_heritage_unveil_a_blue_plaque_to_honour_paul_robeson|title=English Heritage Unveil A Blue Plaque To Honour Paul Robeson|work=untoldlondon.org.uk|access-date=May 7, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429201756/http://untoldlondon.org.uk/articles/read/english_heritage_unveil_a_blue_plaque_to_honour_paul_robeson|archive-date=April 29, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> On May 18, 2002, a memorial concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robeson's concert across the Canadian border took place on the same spot at Peace Park in Vancouver.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gill |first1=Alexandra |title=Paul Robeson's legendary border-straddling concert |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/paul-robesons-legendary-border-straddling-concert/article754799/ |website=The Globe and Mail |access-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-date=September 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923124635/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/paul-robesons-legendary-border-straddling-concert/article754799/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2004, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 37-cent stamp honoring Robeson.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stamp Series|publisher=United States Postal Service|url=http://beyondtheperf.com/stamp-series|access-date=September 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810160707/http://beyondtheperf.com/stamp-series|archive-date=August 10, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2006, a plaque was unveiled in his honor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/9625/Paul+Robeson+tribute+at+Soas|title=Paul Robeson tribute at Soas|work=Socialist Worker (Britain)|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-date=August 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814001821/https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/9625/Paul+Robeson+tribute+at+Soas|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/sep/22/arts.pop|title=Leader: In praise of ... Paul Robeson|last=Leader|date=September 21, 2006|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=August 13, 2018|archive-date=August 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814040626/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/sep/22/arts.pop|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2007, the [[Criterion Collection]], a company that specializes in releasing special-edition versions of classic and contemporary films, released a DVD boxed set of Robeson films.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist|publisher=The Criterion Collection|url=http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/443-paul-robeson-portraits-of-the-artist|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=July 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710102438/https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/443-paul-robeson-portraits-of-the-artist|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2009, Robeson was inducted into the [[New Jersey Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/2009_new_jersey_hall_of_fame_i.html|title=2009 New Jersey Hall of Fame Inductees Welcomed at NJPAC|first=Rohan|last=Mascarenhas|date=May 3, 2009|work=[[The Star-Ledger]]|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=November 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105012448/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/2009_new_jersey_hall_of_fame_i.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:PAUL ROBESON - ACTOR, ARTIST, ATHLETE - NARA - 535624.jpg|thumb|Illustration of Paul Robeson by Charles Henry Alston]]
The main campus library at Rutgers University-Camden is named after Robeson,<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Robeson Library|publisher=Rutgers University Camden|url=http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/robeson|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=January 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129073926/https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/robeson|url-status=live}}</ref> as is the campus center at Rutgers University-Newark.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Robeson Campus Center|publisher=Rutgers University Newark|url=http://www.newark.rutgers.edu/about-us/have-you-met-rutgers-newark/paul-robeson-campus-center|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=September 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928010054/https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/about-us/have-you-met-rutgers-newark/paul-robeson-campus-center|url-status=live}}</ref> The Paul Robeson Cultural Center is on the campus of Rutgers University, New Brunswick.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://prcc.rutgers.edu/|title=Home Page|website=prcc|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307072735/http://prcc.rutgers.edu/|archive-date=March 7, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1972, Penn State established a formal cultural center on the University Park campus. Students and staff chose to name the center for Robeson.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/cultural/prcc-history|title=Paul Robeson Cultural Center History|publisher=Paul Robeson Cultural Center at PSU|access-date=May 28, 2018|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305075736/https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/cultural/prcc-history|url-status=live}}</ref> A street in Princeton, New Jersey, is named after him. In addition, the block of Davenport Street in Somerville, New Jersey, where St. Thomas AME Zion Church still stands, is called Paul Robeson Boulevard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.somervillenj.org/content/4066/4794/default.aspx|title=Somerville History|publisher=Borough of Somerville|access-date=May 28, 2018|archive-date=May 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528134643/http://www.somervillenj.org/content/4066/4794/default.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> In West Philadelphia, the Paul Robeson High School is named after him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://robeson.philasd.org/|title=Paul Robeson High School – The School District of Philadelphia|website=Robeson.philasd.org|access-date=October 2, 2019|archive-date=March 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310192839/https://robeson.philasd.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Robeson's graduation, Rutgers University named an open-air plaza after him on Friday, April 12, 2019. The plaza, next to the [[Voorhees Mall]] on the College Avenue campus at Rutgers, New Brunswick, features eight black granite panels with details of Robeson's life.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/apr/18/rutgers-dedicates-plaza-paul-robeson/|title=Rutgers dedicates plaza to Paul Robeson|newspaper=[[New York Amsterdam News]]|date=April 18, 2019|access-date=May 2, 2019|archive-date=January 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113061557/http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/apr/18/rutgers-dedicates-plaza-paul-robeson/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On March 6, 2019, the city council of New Brunswick, New Jersey, approved the renaming of Commercial Avenue to Paul Robeson Boulevard.<ref>{{Cite web | last=Loyer | first=Susan | title=New Brunswick: Commercial Avenue renamed Paul Robeson Boulevard | url=https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2019/03/28/new-brunswick-commercial-avenue-renamed-paul-robeson-boulevard/3299518002/ | date=March 28, 2019 | access-date=October 16, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610172842/https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2019/03/28/new-brunswick-commercial-avenue-renamed-paul-robeson-boulevard/3299518002/ | archive-date=June 10, 2019 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

A dark red [[heirloom tomato]] from the Soviet Union was given the name [[Paul Robeson tomato|Paul Robeson]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.seedaholic.com/tomato-paul-robeson.html |title=Tomato 'Paul Robeson' Seeds |access-date=April 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615135938/http://www.seedaholic.com/tomato-paul-robeson.html |archive-date=June 15, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Robeson Tomato|url=https://www.rareseeds.com/paul-robeson-tomato|website=Rareseeds.com|language=en|access-date=July 25, 2022|archive-date=July 25, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725033240/https://www.rareseeds.com/paul-robeson-tomato|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===In popular culture===
In 1949, some Chinese editors published children cartoons presenting him as an artistic and revolutionary hero.<ref name="Gao">{{cite web |last1=Gao |first1=Yunxiang |title=Why the People's Republic of China embraced Paul Robeson |url=https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-peoples-republic-of-china-embraced-paul-robeson |website=Aeon Essays |access-date=August 18, 2022 |language=en |archive-date=August 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818104246/https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-peoples-republic-of-china-embraced-paul-robeson |url-status=live }}</ref> In contemporary China, Robeson continues to be praised for his art and as a friend to China, including for his role in globalizing the ''March of the Volunteers''.<ref name=":Gao" />{{Rp|page=292}}

In 1954, the Kurdish poet [[Abdulla Goran]] wrote the poem {{transliteration|ku|Bangêk bo Pol Ropsin}} ("A Call for Paul Robeson"). In the same year, another Kurdish poet, [[Cegerxwîn]], also wrote a poem about him, {{transliteration|ku|Heval Pol Robson}} ("Comrade Paul Robeson"), which was put to music by singer [[Şivan Perwer]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Yüksel|first=Metin|title=Solidarity without borders: The poetic tributes to Paul Robeson of Goran and Cegerxwîn|journal=[[Journal of Postcolonial Writing]]|year=2015|volume=51|issue=5|pages=556–573|doi=10.1080/17449855.2015.1065287|s2cid=143371833}}</ref> In 1970, American poet [[Gwendolyn Brooks]] published a poem entitled ''Paul Robeson''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Poets |first=Academy of American |title=Paul Robeson by Gwendolyn Brooks - Poems {{!}} Academy of American Poets |url=https://poets.org/poem/paul-robeson |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=poets.org |language=en}}</ref>

[[Black 47 (band)|Black 47]]'s 1989 album ''Home of the Brave'' includes the song "Paul Robeson (Born to Be Free)", which features spoken quotes of Robeson as part of the song.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrolyrics.com/paul-robeson-lyrics-black-47.html|title=Paul Robeson Lyrics|publisher=Metro Lyrics|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=March 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301164421/http://www.metrolyrics.com/paul-robeson-lyrics-black-47.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> These quotes are drawn from [[Paul Robeson congressional hearings#Paul Robeson's 1956 HUAC testimony|Robeson's testimony]] before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] in June 1956.

In 2001, Welsh rock band [[Manic Street Preachers]] released a song titled "[[Let Robeson Sing]]" as a tribute to Robeson, which reached number 19 on the [[UK Singles Chart]].

In January 1978, [[James Earl Jones]] performed the one-man show ''Paul Robeson'', written by [[Phillip Hayes Dean]], on Broadway.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/20/archives/stage-james-earl-jones-as-robeson-dramatic-monologue.html|title=Stage: James Earl Jones as Robeson|last=Eder|first=Richard|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 20, 1978|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=January 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112124555/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/20/archives/stage-james-earl-jones-as-robeson-dramatic-monologue.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |title=Phillip Hayes Dean, the Playwright of Divisive 'Paul Robeson,' Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/arts/phillip-hayes-dean-playwright-of-paul-robeson-dies-at-83.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 23, 2014 |access-date=June 5, 2017 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504153509/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/arts/phillip-hayes-dean-playwright-of-paul-robeson-dies-at-83.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This stage drama was made into a TV movie in 1979, starring Jones and directed by [[Lloyd Richards]].<ref>{{cite web|website=Internet Movie Database|title=Paul Robeson (1979 TV Movie)|date=October 8, 1979|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078069|access-date=July 21, 2018|archive-date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818184247/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078069/|url-status=live}}</ref>

At the 2007 [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]], British-Nigerian actor Tayo Aluko, himself a baritone soloist, premiered his one-man show, ''Call Mr. Robeson: A Life with Songs'', which has since toured various countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/robeson/|title=Call Mr. Robeson – Award-winning monodrama with songs celebrating the life and art of Paul Robeson|website=Tayoalukoandfriends.com|access-date=October 21, 2023|archive-date=February 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216181259/https://www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/robeson/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A fictional Paul Robeson appears in ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' episode "Winds of Change" as a friend of Indiana Jones.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TheRaider.net – The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles |url=http://www.theraider.net/films/young_indy/chapter_19.php |access-date=June 3, 2023 |website=Theraider.net |archive-date=June 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603170215/http://www.theraider.net/films/young_indy/chapter_19.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[World Inferno Friendship Society]] had a semi-biographical song about Paul Robeson's life on their 2006 album ''Red Eyed Soul''.<ref>{{Citation |title=The World/Inferno Friendship Society – Paul Robeson |url=https://genius.com/The-world-inferno-friendship-society-paul-robeson-lyrics |access-date=2024-01-31}}</ref>

[[Tom Rob Smith]]'s novel ''[[Agent 6]]'' (2012) includes the character Jesse Austin, "a black singer, political activist and communist sympathizer modeled after real-life actor/activist Paul Robeson."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-jan-27-la-et-book-20120127-story.html|title=Book review: 'Agent 6' by Tom Rob Smith|author=Woods, Paula|date=January 27, 2012|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=March 9, 2018|archive-date=August 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823061130/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/27/entertainment/la-et-book-20120127|url-status=live}}</ref> Robeson also appears in short fiction published in the online literary magazines the ''Maple Tree Literary Supplement''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Frank|first=David|title=The Robeson Connection|url=https://www.mtls.ca/issue23/david-frank/|journal=Maple Tree Literary Supplement|volume=23 (April–July 2018)|access-date=April 1, 2019|archive-date=April 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419122421/https://www.mtls.ca/issue23/david-frank/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Every Day Fiction''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Alexander|first=Morris|title=A Small World|url=https://everydayfiction.com/?s=small+world|journal=Every Day Fiction|volume=January 23, 2019|access-date=March 31, 2019|archive-date=April 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414140325/https://everydayfiction.com/?s=small+world|url-status=live}}</ref>

Film director [[Steve McQueen (director)|Steve McQueen]]'s video work ''End Credits'' (2012–ongoing), shown at the [[Whitney Museum|Whitney Museum of American Art]], the [[Tate Modern]], the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], and the [[Pérez Art Museum Miami]], reproduces Robeson's declassified, although still heavily redacted, FBI files.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Steve McQueen: End Credits|url=https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2769/steve-mcqueen-end-credits|access-date=February 19, 2021|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|date=July 20, 2017|language=en|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030082627/https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2769/steve-mcqueen-end-credits|url-status=live}}</ref>

On September 7, 2019, [[Crossroads Theatre]] Company performed Phillip Hayes Dean's play ''Paul Robeson'' in the inaugural performance of the [[New Brunswick Performing Arts Center]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Crossroads Premieres Paul Robeson at NBPAC's Grand Opening, Lion King Actor to Star |url=https://www.rutgers.edu/news/crossroads-premieres-paul-robeson-nbpacs-grand-opening-lion-king-actor-star |access-date=February 19, 2021 |website=Rutgers.edu |language=en |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411163301/https://www.rutgers.edu/news/crossroads-premieres-paul-robeson-nbpacs-grand-opening-lion-king-actor-star |url-status=live }}</ref>

Robeson was widely popular among [[India]]n intellectuals and artists. Noted Indian singer-songwriter, Dr. [[Bhupen Hazarika]] met Robeson in 1949, befriended him and participated in civil rights activities.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Raman |first=Papri Sri |date=April 9, 2021 |title=Singer actor Paul Robeson is still missed and he still inspires 44 years after his death |work=[[National Herald]] |url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/singer-actor-paul-robeson-is-still-missed-and-he-still-inspires-44-years-after-his-death |access-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018110945/https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/singer-actor-paul-robeson-is-still-missed-and-he-still-inspires-44-years-after-his-death |url-status=live }}</ref> Hazarika based his iconic [[Assamese language|Assamese]] song "''Bistirno Parore''" ("Of the wide shores") on Robeson's "Ol' Man River",<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goswami |first=Manash P. |date=April 9, 2021 |title=From Ol' Man River to Burha Luit |work=[[The Assam Tribune]] |url=https://assamtribune.com/from-ol-man-river-to-burha-luit/?infinitescroll=1 |access-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018110945/https://assamtribune.com/from-ol-man-river-to-burha-luit/?infinitescroll=1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dutta |first=Pranjal |date=November 5, 2020 |title=The African American Bhupen Hazarika |work=[[The Sentinel (Guwahati)|The Sentinel]] |url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/editorial/the-african-american-bhupen-hazarika-509971 |access-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018110944/https://www.sentinelassam.com/editorial/the-african-american-bhupen-hazarika-509971 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Raju |first=Archishman |date=April 9, 2019 |title=Remembering a Revolutionary Artist: Paul Robeson and His India Connection |work=[[The Wire (India)]] |url=https://thewire.in/the-arts/remembering-paul-robeson |access-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-date=October 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018110950/https://thewire.in/the-arts/remembering-paul-robeson |url-status=live }}</ref> later translated into [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Hindi]], [[Nepali language|Nepali]] and [[Sanskrit]]. Singer-songwriter [[Hemanga Biswas]] sang the Bengali ballad "''Negro bhai amar Paul Robeson''" ("Our Negro brother Paul Robeson").<ref name=":1" /> There were nation-wide celebrations in India on Robeson's 60th birthday in 1958, with the then prime minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] saying: "This occasion deserves celebration…because Paul Robeson is one of the greatest artistes of our generation."<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

A jazz poetry opera, "Paul Robeson: Man of the People" by Lasana Katembe and Ernest Dawkins debuted at The Cabaret in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 31, 2024, and will have its Chicago premiere on June 7, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-04 |title='Man of the People' celebrates the larger-than-life story of Paul Robeson |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/04/man-of-the-people-celebrates-the-larger-than-life-story-of-paul-robeson/ |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mooieweer |first=Josh |date=2024-05-18 |title=Chicago Celebrates 'Paul Robeson: Man of the People' |url=https://www.petermcdowell.com/paulrobeson/ |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=Peter McDowell Arts Consulting |language=en-US}}</ref>