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Curtis Mayfield. Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music. [5][6] Dubbed the "Gentle Genius", [7][8] he first achieved success and recognition with the Rock and ...
The Impressions were an American music group originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes gospel, R&B, doo-wop, and soul. [1]The group was founded as the Roosters by Chattanooga, Tennessee natives Sam Gooden, Richard Brooks and Arthur Brooks, who moved to Chicago and added Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield to their line-up to become Jerry Butler & the Impressions.
Aretha Louise Franklin (/ əˈriːθə / ə-REE-thə; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. [2] Honored as the " Queen of Soul ", Rolling Stone magazine twice named her as the greatest singer of all time. [3][4] As a child, Franklin was noticed for her gospel singing at New Bethel Baptist Church in ...
Dr. Mark Chavez, one of the doctors charged in Matthew Perry's death from "the acute effects of ketamine" last year, has been allowed to be released on a $50,000 bond, USA TODAY has confirmed.. On ...
March 11, 2024 at 6:39 PM. Courtesy of Garrison Brown/Instagram. Sister Wives star Janelle Brown’s son Garrison Brown was laid to rest on Saturday, March 9. Garrison’s cousin, Emma Brown ...
Baker Reagan Mayfield (born April 14, 1995) [1] is an American professional football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). After beginning his college football career with the Texas Tech Red Raiders, Mayfield played for the Oklahoma Sooners, where he was the first walk-on player to win the Heisman Trophy in 2017.
Dissent. Kavanaugh. Laws applied. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act 1964. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court case which ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender people from employment discrimination.
Hendrix's paternal grandparents, Ross and Nora Hendrix, pre-1912. Hendrix was of African American and alleged Cherokee descent. [nb 1] His paternal grandfather, Bertran Philander Ross Hendrix, was born in 1866 from an extramarital affair between a woman named Fanny and a grain merchant from either Urbana, Ohio or Illinois, one of the wealthiest men in the area at that time.