Bettye Swann scored just two minor pop hits during her prime—1967’s “Make Me Yours” and 1969’s “Don’t Touch Me”—but this magnificent singer has inspired cult devotion for good reason. Blessed with a ...

Whereas today we have white men revealing the breasts of African American women during Super Bowl halftime shows, back in the ’60s, members of different races were seldom seen sharing a TV screen. For ...

Ray CHARLES blazed the trail in the early ‘60s with his landmark “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music,” but he wasn’t the only African American singer in that decade to cross the divide between ...