*Yvonne Staples, who rose to fame alongside her family members in the legendary soul group Staple Singers, died Tuesday in her Chicago home, the Sun-Times reported. She was 80. Bill Carpenter, a ...

Released in 1971, the Staple Singers' 'Respect Yourself' emerged from Stax Records as a funk-infused sermon, blending civil rights grit with Black empowerment. Written by Luther Ingram and Mack Rice, ...

For over fifty years, the music of The Staple Singers has played an electrifying part in American culture--and it all started with just one man. Known simply as Pops Staples, the family's musical man ...

Her voice still has that instantly recognizable deep-and-low quality you can feel in your chest. The post At Chevalier Theatre, Mavis Staples lives up to her legacy of joy and protest appeared first ...

The Staples Singers (Pervis is between his two sisters Cleotha and Mavis). Their father, Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, is front-center *Pervis Staples, who along with his father and sisters, comprised the ...

The Staple Singers. The Best of The Staple Singers (Exodus EX-64). 33-1/3 rpm. Reissue of Vee-Jay LP-5019 initially released in 1962.

Singer Mavis Staples is best known for her part in The Staple Singers. The group will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2005 Grammy Awards. We rebroadcast an interview with Staples from ...

With streaming taking over and movie theaters just starting to fully recover, 2021 provided an interesting mix of movies for our best of the year list. Yvonne Staples, who served both as a background ...

Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler ...