Life always was calling for Gordon Parks. A high school dropout and the youngest of 15 children, Parks landed one of his first jobs as a piano player in a Minneapolis, Minn., brothel. By his mid-20s, ...

John Singleton was only 3 years old when he went to see Shaft with his father in 1971. "My father used to always say, and he looked a lot like Richard Roundtree too, that someone saw him walking down ...

Who is the cat who won’t cop out when there’s danger all about? Well, actually, it’s Gordon Parks. That’s according to Richard Roundtree, the actor who basically codified urban cool in the 1970s when ...

While Gordon Parks had an extraordinarily creative career that included composing music, writing poetry and making films, it’s his powerful photographs that remain a major draw for audiences.