“At the time, it wasn’t a hit,” says Daniel Wolff, one of the authors of You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke. “It ...

He died in 1964 at the age of 33 under mysterious ... the Cooke family deserves it. Second, because Sam Cooke’s legacy reminds us that change comes when people take action,” said Perkins.

Unfortunately, Sam Cooke’s legacy has been stained by ... considering the racial tensions in the United States when he died. Cooke was found dead with a gunshot wound to the chest at a motel ...