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 ...

Legendary soul artist Sam Cooke got his start performing with the Soul Stirrers in Pine Bluff. Samuel Cook, known professionally as Sam Cooke, was born on Jan. 22, 1931, in Clarksdale, Miss., to ...

There were few better stretches of film in 2001 than the first ten minutes of Ali: a stunningly conceived and edited collage of the title character training, Sam Cooke singing, and the '60s ...

Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 has been called one of the best live albums ever recorded. But it was shelved for more than 20 years by... A Night Out With Sam Cooke: 'Harlem Square' Turns 50 ...

Sunday marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of Sam Cooke, one of the most famous gospel and pop singers in American music history. Along with... Tracing the Highs and Tragic End of Sam Cooke ...

Editor’s Note: Don Wilcock is currently writing his memoirs, looking back at 51 years starting with Sounds from The World, a column he wrote for “grunts” in the rice patties of Vietnam in what was ...

Rarely has the manner of a man’s demise been so unbefitting of their life. On the evening of 10 December 1964, soul sensation ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Saturday, September 13 at 7 p.m., the historic Strand Theatre will host an evening of music and homage, as renowned gospel-R&B artist Beau Williams leads a heartfelt ...

The potential pitfalls of a movie that brings together Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown for a night on February 25, 1964, seem so numerous, so prone to falling into caricature, that ...