Still We Stand: Beyond the Peekskill Riots- Inspired by Paul Robeson

Still We Stand: Beyond the Peekskill Riots is the Robeson in Peekskill Project’s third annual commemoration of the Peekskill Riots and celebration of the life and legacy of Paul Robeson: a brilliant scholar, world-renowned artist, and courageous voice for human dignity. Still We Stand is an afternoon of music, spoken word, visual storytelling, and community connection rooted in the past, alive with the energy of today, and centered on what brings us together now. Inspired by Robeson’s 1919 Rutgers valedictory address, The New Idealism, this year’s program asks what it means to “make national unity a reality.”