Adds Don Cheadle: "Sammy Davis, Jr., was not only a towering, sui generis talent but also a performer who used his platform and prestige to fight for equality and justice" A century ago, on Dec. 8, ...

Franklin’s recently released F.B.I. file reflects an era when the agency spied not only on civil rights leaders, political organizers and suspected Communists, but also on popular Black entertainers ...

Take a musical step into the past when “The Rat Pack: One More Time” comes to the Poway Performing Arts Center for one night on Saturday, Nov. 4. Setting their performance in the early 1960s heyday of ...

There are entertainers, and then there is Sammy Davis Jr. To call him a “triple threat” feels almost insulting because the man didn’t just sing, dance, and act – he commanded the very air in the room.

When I was a kid, I was Sammy Davis Jr. before I was anyone else. I started my entertainment career as a tap dancer. That was what led to my first appearance on television, in Philadelphia on KYW-TV.

For what would have been his 100th birthday, PEOPLE spoke to some of Sammy Davis Jr.'s former friends and colleagues Don Smith/Radio Times via Getty For what would have been his 100th birthday, PEOPLE ...