“What would it do to the American mythology of rock music to say that its pioneers were Black, queer people?” the ethnomusicologist Fredara Hadley asks in the new documentary Little Richard: I Am ...

In 1956, Elvis Presley exploded onto the music scene, changing music history. One of the songs on Presley's introductory album was his rendition of "Tutti Frutti," a song released the previous year by ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard, is widely respected as one of the architects of rock and roll. But did you know the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer spent time ...

As part of the 2023 March On Washington Film Festival, a trailblazing documentary titled Little Richard: I Am Everything directed by Emmy Award-winning director Lisa Cortes shone a light on the ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Film “Little Richard: I Am Everything” tells the story of rock ‘n’ roll’s Black, queer origins. It illustrates clearly just how the revolutionary pop icon’s career laid the ...

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Because the story of Little Richard is inextricable from the story of what other artists took from him, it can be tempting to forget that he, too, absorbed and emulated the talent that came before him ...

PHILADELPHIA, April 21 (UPI) --The world was experiencing an unprecedented pandemic when rock 'n' roll great Little Richard died at age 87 in May 2020. Amid lockdowns that left people isolated in ...

Filmmaker Lisa Cortés believes that if deacon’s-son-turned-rock-legend Little Richard had been whispering anything in her ear while she was making her documentary “Little Richard: I Am Everything,” it ...

Lisa Cortés’ wildly entertaining doc for CNN and HBO Max gives persuasive backup to the Black, queer trailblazer who said, “I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock ’n’ ...

He had been tapped to co-present the award for Best New Artist at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards in New York City. That evening, he took the stage with Buster Poindexter, the alter-ego of New York ...

Lisa Cortés's film, in perceiving Little Richard as a wild genius of Black and queer culture, sees him more clearly than ever. But Little Richard was always another story. If Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis ...