had the longest running shakespearean play on broadway >> othello." he had such a huge platform.es that he thought was urgent ranging from the plight of black people in this country to the plight of workers all over the world and the african fremont movement. tavis: and paid a hellish price for it. >> he literally sat down everything. there is a line in the play, he says "no more singing pretty songs. i will use my voice for the workers and my knee grow people." that's the stand that he took. tavis: what is causing a pushback on robeson given his stature as an artist? >> robeson was really dangerous because he understood the link between race and class. when he went to truman, when there was a wave of lynch terror happening in this country and truman was not willing to do anti-lynching legislation, he went to the streets and he went to the unions and he got poor folks of all races, working folks of all races to unite together. that's when he became really, really dangerous. it got to the point during the whole mccarthy era that he was called before the house un-american activitie

he has guts -- antony, othello. i'm going to kiss the ground before malcolm speed.he forest move dan you were not born a woman in there against me -- you know what? come and get it. it's a bit of a ridiculous quality but shakespeare says, what else you got? show me. he hangs in there. as a profound respect for this. i never ran away. he complements them both. usestems he uses where he dauntless. whateverthose who take life throws at them. get up. what else can you do? it ought to feel grander than that, but sometimes that's all there is to do -- show up. >> in your pantheon, is there a 1, 2, 3 of shakespeare's work? >> your life changes. you react to things. it is so comprehensive. you've had many brilliant conversations with harold bloom. shakespeare invented the human. him ourcholar called contemporary. the process of living. it applies across many of these. one's soul is shaken by what macbeth does to the audience. we are the lucky vessels through which this thing passes currently in this particular show. >> five minutes before you go on, what are you doing, what

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