According to The Boston Globe associate editor Renée Graham, his politics and popularity made Cooke a target. “Elvis believed that there was a sense in the music industry that Sam was getting ...

It is considered an anthem of the civil rights movement. 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 ...

Late in 1957, Sam Cooke was making his fans swoon ... Reasons Watch this video on YouTube Click to load video The song had its origins at the end of World War II, when the writing credits were ...

Set to a melancholy arrangement of strings and horns, “A Change Is Gonna Come” became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, historians say. It was named the third greatest song of all ...

With his music, his actions, and his vision, Sam Cooke had turned himself into a superstar and role model on a global scale by his early thirties. That’s why it came as such a shock to the world ...

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 ...