Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan Gough in 1915 in Philadelphia, was a pioneering American jazz and swing singer whose voice shaped the sound of 20th-century music. Raised in Baltimore during the 1920s, she grew up immersed in the rhythms of … Read More
Aretha Franklin began her music career in 1956 at the age of 14, singing gospel with her family. That same year, she recorded her first gospel album, The Gospel Sound of Aretha Franklin. In 1960, she moved into popular music … Read More
Huey Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 and wrote its Ten-Point Program with Bobby Seale, aiming to fight racial injustice and inequality.
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