Nicole Cooke-Johnson loaded her car full of children’s books and traveled to her grandfather’s hometown, Clarksdale, ...

Nicole Cooke-Johnson, the granddaughter of the late soul music icon Sam Cooke, is speaking out and sharing new insight on what it’s like being the handler of his estate. In particular, she’s getting ...

The granddaughter of soul legend Sam Cooke is opening up about the responsibility she feels as head of his estate, and the lengths to which she will go to keep his legacy alive 61 years after his ...

When Sam Cooke recorded “A Change Is Gonna Come” in 1964, he gave the world more than a song, he offered something that has carried through the decades. The lyrics, rooted in his own experiences and ...

Singer Sam Cooke wrote one of the most profound songs of the 1960s, but it wasn’t an easy decision for him, NPR’s Arun Rath reports. Suggested Reading 23 Films You Should Be Watching This Black ...

Legendary R&B and soul singer Bobby Womack is known as much for his scandalous love life as he is for his catalog of hit songs. He shocked the music world when he married Barbara Cooke, the widow of ...

A Birmingham artist whose musical career transcended styles and genres for seven decades has died. Roscoe Robinson as a solo artist, writer and group member was associated with numerous gospel and ...

Bobby Womack was born on this day, March 4, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio. Born to a poor family, Womack was often told by his mother to “sing his way out of the ghetto.” That was something that young ...

Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come has become synonymous with the American Civil Rights Movement. It was released in December 1964, two weeks after the influential singer was shot dead in Los Angeles.