Adds Don Cheadle: "Sammy Davis, Jr., was not only a towering, sui generis talent but also a performer who used his platform and prestige to fight for equality and justice" A century ago, on Dec. 8, ...

Franklin’s recently released F.B.I. file reflects an era when the agency spied not only on civil rights leaders, political organizers and suspected Communists, but also on popular Black entertainers ...

The entertainer, who would have turned 100 this month, reinvented himself by starring in the musical version of Clifford Odets’s prizefighting drama “Golden Boy.” The entertainer, who would have ...

There are entertainers, and then there is Sammy Davis Jr. To call him a “triple threat” feels almost insulting because the man didn’t just sing, dance, and act – he commanded the very air in the room.