Robin Hood

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Go to the beginnings of Hollywood and there are Robin Hood movies: Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, some shorts from even earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

After a decade here in Vancouver, next year it moves stateside, to San Diego, where its Robin Hood ops will carry on.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

Mangione has been hailed in some quarters of the internet as a latter-day Robin Hood, fighting against a rigged system on behalf of working people.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

One sculpture transforms the European hero Robin Hood into an African bandit queen who raided slave traders and freed their captives.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

As a bonus following her Carnegie Hall retirement, Anderson performed that summer with her twenty-eight-year-old nephew James DePreist, who had been asked to conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra at Robin Hood Dell, Philadelphia’s outdoor amphitheater.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman