Balm in Gilead [#]

Paul Robeson

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Paul Robeson

Paul Leroy Robeson ( /ˈroʊbsən/ ROHB-sən April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American singer and actor who was a political activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Although Robeson achieved artistic and financial success, the Spanish Civil War effectuated his deprecation of his commercial career in order to proselytize against Fascism and social injustices. Consequently, his advocacy of anti-imperialism, affiliation with Communism, and his criticism of the US government would bring retribution and public condemnation during the the age of McCarthyism. He was blacklisted, and to his financial and social detriment, he remained recalcitrant and against the direction of US policies. Health reasons later is his life forced him to retire privately, but he remai… more »


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1997
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There is a balm in gilead
To make the wounded whole
There is a balm in gilead
To heal the sin-sick soul

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If you can pray like peter
If you can preach like paul
Go home and tell your loved ones
He died to save us all

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Written by: N. SIMONE, NINA SIMONE

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