Cooke recorded "A Change is Gonna Come" 50 years ago this week. The story of the song is as amazing, and unsettling, as the song itself. Sam Cooke And The Song That 'Almost Scared Him' Fifty years ago ...

Sam Cooke: Legend is a documentary film that centers around the life of Sam Cooke. For the unversed, Sam Cooke is a legendary musical artist and civil rights activist who became a musical sensation by ...

A few years ago, I was at a party for a friend’s kid. In the midst of a brief lull, my friend April dramatically waved me back into the kitchen to whisper a secret. The huge secret? She finds ...

In July 2004, I went on a nine-day driving and reporting tour of Mississippi. On my itinerary was a pilgrimage to the house in Clarksdale where Sam Cooke was born. Cooke has been an obsession of mine ...

Merry Clayton is returning to her gospel roots with her first new album in decades. The Grammy Award-winning vocal powerhouse, who sang with Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter” ...

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