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Josh Gibson, who died just three months before the league's colour barrier was broken, is now the holder of multiple Major League Baseball records as the result of a three-year research project to integrate Negro League accomplishments.

The documentary ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ tells the story of one of the most influential, conflicted and unrecognized musicians of the modern era, mentor to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix

Brown was an ace pitcher for the Black baseball leagues in the 1920s and 30s, but went on the lam after he was accused of murder.

Ranking the extraordinary catalog of the Southern rock legends and their trademark triple-guitar attack

Ranking the extraordinary catalog of the Southern rock legends and their trademark triple-guitar attack

Otis Williams is the sole surviving member from The Temptations original and commercial heyday. Over time, he’s also become the definitive member.

Danyel Smith, author of Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Women in Pop Music, on the music writing that excites her the most.

With hits like “Lollipop,” she became a top woman songwriter in the early 1960s, but she quit the business in frustration over the theft of her work.

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Mary Wilson, Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76 Chris Morris, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Vocalist Mary Wilson, who co-founded the Supremes as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977,  died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76. Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral servi...