HURRICANE -- The Singing Cookes and the Cooke Brothers from Kingsport, Tennessee, will appear in concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Valley Park Community Center in Hurricane. The Cookes are ...

Bradd Marquis bears more than a resemblance to the late Sam Cooke. Before he walked on to the Baum Walker stage at the Walton Arts Center last night, a video introduced the audience to Mr. Marquis, a ...

Sam Cooke: Legend is a documentary film that centers around the life of Sam Cooke. For the unversed, Sam Cooke is a legendary musical artist and civil rights activist who became a musical sensation by ...

In Singing In My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age, author Jerma Jackson compares the milestone event in size and scope to Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s wedding concert in July 1951 — when 15,000 ...