"Unchained Melody" is among the most ubiquitous love songs of the last 100 years, but it started out as a prison song.
When civil rights activists needed a champion, Norman Francis was there, longtime friend Edwin Lombard remembers.
No person has ever been nominated more times for the best original song Oscar — and no woman has ever received more nominations in any Oscars category — without winning.
I am not proposing that “Lift Every Voice and Sing” be designated as a co-anthem or displace any existing national symbol.