Picturing Black History

Photographs and stories that changed the world

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Taylor Dorrell

Taylor Dorrell is a freelance photographer and writer contributing to publications like Business Insider, Teen Vogue, Jacobin, and The Verge. Dorrell is a member of the Freelance Solidarity Project union and the Mike Gold Collective.

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Paul Robeson, singer, performer and civil rights activist, is welcomed in Russia, Moscow, Russia, January 19, 1935.

Paul Robeson in the Soviet Union

Between the 1930s and 1960s, the famous singer and actor made many visits to the world’s first socialist country, which made a lasting impression on his art and politics.