New Documentaries Spotlight Boundary-Breaking Black Singers
 

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Three new documentaries airing this month explore the lives of black singers who crossed racial barriers on the way to becoming music legends.

Sammy Davis Jr., Sam Cooke and Charley Pride took different approaches to confronting bias and segregation in their respective genres—vaudeville, soul and country music—and had to reconcile their efforts to effect change with their roles as entertainers.

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