About Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson was born in 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1915 he won an academic scholarship to Rutgers University (then known as Rutgers College). Whilst studying at Rutgers, he has twice named a consensus All-American in football and was the class valedictorian. He went on to study at Columbia Law School. During his life, he is best known as an activist, actor (film and stage), singer, a professional athlete, writer, and orator. He died in Philadelphia in 1976.
About the Artist
Layqa Nuna Yawar (a.k.a. Lenny Correa) is a migrant latinx artist muralist, organizer, curator, and agitator born in Ecuador and based out of Newark. His paintings, murals, and projects question injustice, racism, and xenophobia while celebrating cross-cultural identity, silenced narratives, and migration around the Americas and the world.