1960s
Before Aretha Franklin Made ‘Respect’ Her Own, It Was Otis Redding’s
The late great singer died tragically at 26, just as the Queen of Soul was turning his minor hit into a feminist anthem
How ‘MLK/FBI’ Chronicled an American Disgrace
Director Sam Pollard takes us inside his documentary about the FBI’s surveillance campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. — and the danger of putting heroes on pedestals
Six Decades After a Gruesome Murder Spree, the ‘Pied Piper of Tucson’ Still Leaves His Mark
In the ’60s, he was ‘King of the Teenagers,’ adored by high schoolers and their parents. But behind Charles Schmid’s super-cool facade lay the mind of a psychopath
‘One Night in Miami’ Shows Us the Real Men Behind the Icons
In February 1964, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Cassius Clay and Jim Brown hung out together. Regina King’s terrific film imagines what that night might have been like — and how men open up to one another behind closed doors.
