“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 became better known after he died. The significance now, I can ...

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.