For six years, beginning in the late 1950s, singer Sam Cooke lived on the upper reaches of popular music charts. He recorded or wrote 29 Top 40 singles–more than Little Richard, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis combined. In 1986, he was one of the first 10 inductees into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
Detroit the movie is not trying to be Detroit the city. Failure to understand this distinction lies behind some of the most vocal criticism I’ve seen of the film.
“Looks like it’s boilin’ down to me and you, boy,” Pierce “Fat Daddy” Cofield says, turning to Bob Ladford, a laid-off auto worker. “You want my business?”
For Almost 30 Years, John Edmond Jr. Has Inspired His Students With His Mastery of Golf and Life. Now, as Part of a Management Change, His Teaching Days May Be Numbered.
His friends tell him he is crazy when he asks them to go with him to Leimert Park in Los Angeles’ Crenshaw district, asking: “Do I need a gun? Do I need a bulletproof vest?”
One of the smartest guys I knew in the blue-collar, predominantly black neighborhood where I grew up in Detroit was a voracious reader and an all-city basketball player.
He read so much and was knowledgeable on so many subjects that guys in the neighborhood began calling him Clever. We were all intellectually curious and outstanding students, and during summer vacations, we would sit late into the evening on someone’s porch, holding forth on subjects ranging from Mao’s Long March in China to Napoleon’s campaign in Russia.