Butler, who died Feb. 20, was born in rural Miss., and had his first hit in 1958, singing lead with The Impressions. He later moved to Chicago and entered local politics. Originally broadcast in 2000.

After revealing that her 2003 hit “Crazy in Love” featuring her husband Jay-Z made his playlist ... song “16 Carriages” was one of the two lead singles to come from her multi-faceted ...

And women like Houston, Tina Turner and Janet Jackson broke down barriers to make it easier for other Black ... singer. She didn’t start in music until she was 19, when she became the lead ...

Thursday, July 31: Jason Scheff, longtime singer of Chicago, and Tommy DeCarlo, former lead singer of Boston, will be bringing their "Lead Singers of Classic Rock" tour to the Palladium at Allied ...

Even though most of them are artists in the Commonwealth, several of them were surprisingly Black. This 1980 single from Diana Ross was the lead single ... a cover of French singer Édith Piaf ...

Andrew M. Cuomo. But many of her supporters see her candidacy as something else: an opportunity for Democrats to elect a qualified Black woman to lead the country’s largest city, less than a ...

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*Love him or hate, Stephen A. Smith is here to stay at ESPN. At least for the next half decade. According to NBC New York, Smith agreed with the sports network on a new five-year contract worth $ ...

The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, wants to terminate a lease and cut financial support for an independent film theater that screened “No Other Land,” describing the Oscar-winning documentary ...

Ed Askew, a cult folk music singer/songwriter and painter ... and I hope more come to know this,” Jay Pluck, Askew’s manager and friend, told PEOPLE. “Ed’s music changed the lives of ...