Curtis Lee Mayfield saw plenty of the dark side of life growing up in Chicago’s crime-ridden Cabrini Housing Projects. But rather than follow his peer’s path that led to destruction, addictions and ...

ATLANTA -- When she saw the YouTube trailer and heard the music for the remake of "Sparkle," it put a twinkle in Altheida Mayfield's eyes. See, she was right there beside her husband, the late, great ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Curtis Mayfield wasn’t just a musician—he was a storyteller, an activist, and a visionary whose music still ...

Curtis Mayfield was one of the premiere voices in soul music. Since clinching his first hit record in 1958, Mayfield carved out a unique space in the world of music: taking a stand against the ...

1999 - Curtis Mayfield, a pioneer of American soul music who penned some of the most lasting songs of the 1960s and '70s, dies at a hospital in Roswell, Ga. He is 57 years old. By Billboard Staff 1999 ...

If asked to name the recording artist whose music came closest to serving as a soundtrack for the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most pop fans would probably think of James Brown, Stevie Wonder ...

With a distinctive, highly recognizable tenor voice, an unparalleled catalog of enduring pop and soul classics and an honored place in the pantheon of American music, Curtis Mayfield is without ...

Early on in “The Makings of Curtis Mayfield,” H.E.R., the 27-year-old R&B pop star who directed the film and appears in it as its interviewer and tour guide, offers a telling observation about her ...