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Sad news for the gospel world- Cleotha Staples of the Staple Singers died this past Thursday.  The eldest sibling of the legendary singing group, Cleotha had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for the past 12 years. READ:  The Greatest Soundtracks From The Blaxploitation Era Cleotha was born April 11, 1934 in Mississippi.  The Staple Singers were […]

With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.