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 ...
With a running time of seventy minutes, the documentary on singer/composer/producer Sam Cooke is far shorter than the bonus material included on the DVD of Legend. But in its own way, that's fitting ...
UPDATE: ABKCO Films, the only company authorized by Sam Cooke’s widow and surviving siblings to produce a biopic of Sam Cooke’s life, has stated that recent media reports about a proposed biographical ...
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 ...
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 ...
Producer Romeo Antonio hopes to shine a new light on the hows and whys of the singer-songwriter's death. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer The story of Sam Cooke, the soulful singer-songwriter behind ...
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, ...
Soul singers Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson were set to hit the stage at The Norfolk Arena on Granby Street, officially known as The Norfolk Municipal Auditorium. The pair had just played in Charlotte, ...
Samuel Cook, known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, civil-rights activist and entrepreneur. Influential as a singer, composer, and producer, he is commonly known as the ...