Sam Cooke in 1964, performing on the ABC variety show Shindig! just a few months before his death that December. Fifty years ago this week, Sam Cooke strolled into a recording studio, put on a pair of ...

Sam Cooke wrote “A Change is Gonna Come” shortly before his death in 1964. It is considered an anthem of the civil rights movement. Sam Cooke, a soul music icon who died 60 years ago this week, wrote ...

Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Sam Cooke, the greatest soul singer of all time. It also marks roughly 50 years since the release of his greatest song, the civil rights anthem "A ...

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When Barack Obama told America late Tuesday night that “a change has come,” the many promises cashed in by those four words included a very specific promise made in 1964 by Sam Cooke. “It’s been a ...

Regina King says a special moment in her directorial debut was seeing one of Sam Cooke’s most enduring songs in the script. Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come” is an anthem of the civil rights movement.

The University of Chicago’s bid for the Obama presidential library was delivered in December in two big binders about 31/2 inches thick, tucked inside a gray box. But just in case President Barack ...

Sam Cooke, a soul music icon who died 60 years ago this week, wrote the first draft of one of his most famous songs, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” while sitting on a bus in Durham. That’s according to ...