Curtis Mayfield was short, and with his rabbity grin and small rectangular-wire-framed glasses hanging halfway down his nose, he looked cute and brainy, like a soul-brother version of Bob Balaban ...

Curtis Mayfield was short, with a rabbity grin and small rectangular-wire-framed glasses hanging halfway down his nose. He looked cute and brainy, like a soul-brother version of Bob Balaban, ...

By the time Curtis Mayfield wrote We’re A Winner, he’d heard chants of “Black Power” drown out choruses of We Shall Overcome. He saw the failure of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1966 fair ...

How H.E.R.’s 2021 Oscar Speech Led to Her Directing a Curtis Mayfield Doc 'The Makings of Curtis Mayfield’, which is premiering at SXSW, features interviews with Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and ...

Curtis Mayfield's previous songs for The Impressions had often been broadly inspirational — but here, he aimed his pen directly at black listeners, pledging that better times were ahead.

Mayfield, who died in 1999 at age 57, was a pioneer. Musically, he crossed boundaries as a member of soul vocal group the Impressions, with whom he recorded throughout the '60s, and, beginning in ...

: Curtis Mayfield Was Paralyzed by a Freak On-Stage Accident 30 Years Ago Today [EUR Video Throwback] . Click to read more about on EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More .

The title track from the Superfly soundtrack is one of Curtis Mayfield’s most recognized works. A slick, funk-driven piece that serves as both an indictment and an observation of street life, it ...

Early on in “The Makings of Curtis Mayfield,” H.E.R., the 27-year-old R&B pop star who directed the film and appears in it as its interviewer and tour guide, offers a telling observation about ...

'The Makings of Curtis Mayfield’, which is premiering at SXSW, features interviews with Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige and John Legend.

Curtis Mayfield was short, and with his rabbity grin and small rectangular-wire-framed glasses hanging halfway down his nose, he looked cute and brainy, like a soul-brother version of Bob Balaban ...