Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shocking outbreak of violence in Cortlandt Manor in 1949 surrounding performances by Paul Robeson, the renowned Black ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fighting rages in Peekskill, N.Y., on Aug. 27,1949, as veterans break up a scheduled concert by singer Paul Robeson. AP Photo Few ...

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 ...

Kristina Koller, a Peekskill jazz singer and social entrepreneur, builds community for jazz lovers, artists, and young adults with events she sponsors throughout the region. For jazz fans, she hosts ...

It was August 1949. The best-selling Communist novelist, Howard Fast, was sitting at home with his children in Manhattan and had just been delivered a third subpoena to appear before the House ...

An afternoon of music, stories & community honoring Peekskill’s stand against hate and keeping Paul Robeson’s voice alive for future generations. Escorting Robeson to the first concert in 1949, my ...

The shocking outbreak of violence in Cortlandt Manor in 1949 surrounding performances by Paul Robeson, the renowned Black bass-baritone and civil rights activist, still resonates 75 years later.

Few Americans today know about the events that occurred 75 years ago in the small Hudson Valley community of Peekskill, New York. That’s where a riot broke out at a folk concert that marked a ...