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More Than a Singer: How Sam Cooke’s Family Built a Legacy After His Death

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi — Nicole Cooke-Johnson loaded her car full of children’s books and traveled to her grandfather’s hometown, Clarksdale, Mississippi, for the first time in her life. It was a journey as old and as common as the Great Migration. But her grandfather, Sam Cooke, was no ordinary man.  Cooke, an iconic, groundbreaking recording artist […]

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