Sam Cooke emerges from this biography perhaps even more intriguing than he had previously been, and for that one has to thank Daniel Wolff. “You Send Me” is a solidly written effort that not only ...

The movie 'One Night in Miami,' directed by Regina King, imagines the conversations between four Black icons in 1964: Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Malcolm X, on the night of Clay's surprise ...

At almost 3 in the morning of Dec. 11, 1965, in a seedy motel on Figueroa Avenue in South Central Los Angeles, a drunken, enraged man wearing nothing but his sport coat and a pair of shoes attacked a ...

Biographer Peter Guralnick's new book is Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. Guralnick follows the life of rhythm and blues legend Sam Cooke from his roots in gospel music through his legendary ...

When Peter Guralnick started writing about soul music, he did it for the purest of reasons: to tell others about an art form he revered. The fact that he’s an award-winning biographer of some of the ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. There's a biopic coming that's focusing on Sam Cooke's violent death. According to producer Romeo Antonio, Sam Cooke: The Truth is a "murder mystery" ...

There's no real substitute for the sound of Sam Cooke's music, but the detailed descriptions of his recordings throughout this masterful biography are the next best thing to wearing headphones while ...

Here, in Chicago, on the South Side’s Bronzeville, Sam and his younger brother L.C. — the middle children of eight — sold the Chicago Defender door-to-door. It was here on 35th Street and Cottage ...

Charles R. Cross is the author of "Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix." ON Dec. 11, 1964, Sam Cooke suffered one of the more bizarre deaths in show business history. At 3 that morning, ...

Sam Cooke's iconic song 'A Change is Gonna Come' became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement, speaking to the struggles of Black Americans, echoing Cooke's own feeling sparked by a 1963 incident at ...

How does an American artist aim for a broad audience without being accused of selling out? Trying to maintain your distinctiveness while entering the mainstream is particularly fraught for black ...