Monday, January 19, 2004

Another dead troublemaker honored

Paul Robeson, the actor and activist whose career was destroyed by the blacklist in the 50s, has been officially rehabilitated: He'll appear on a postage stamp.

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." -- Mignon McLaughlin. (Who the hell was Mignon McLaughlin? A female journalist and playwright.)

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