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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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The future politician who later served on the County Board became famous performing with the Impressions, which also included Curtis Mayfield. “Their music was the sound of the Civil Rights ...

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 is a bit of a misleading title for the oblique documentary directed by the Grammy- and Oscar-winning musician H.E.R. The name, a riff on Mayfield’s honeyed 1970 ...

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 ...