He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, lay a foundation for what was to...

With her aristocratic lineage, high-profile husbands and famous friends, she embodied a chic life of luxury as an international social figure.

He avoided the spotlight, but he helped bring to market an explosively popular computer program that revolutionized the architecture and design industries.

As the director of salons at Henri Bendel, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue, she spent decades outfitting brides-to-be for their grand ceremonies.

A soprano who rose from South Philadelphia to the opera houses of Europe, she was memorably seen and heard in a 1981 film considered a...

A former gas station owner, he was learning to read the Bible in its original languages when he changed course and started what became an...

A “crackpot eccentric Yankee” from Massachusetts, he revived the careers of long-forgotten Southern artists during the blues boom of the 1960s.

A sunny California poet, she provided the words to songs on “Tapestry” and other albums, including the enduring hit “It’s Too Late.”

He logged more than 2,000 episodes on the enduring soap opera. He also rode the Davy Crockett craze to a hit single in 1955.

Making music with no melody or rhythm and films with no plot, he became a darling of New York’s experimental underground.