Chuck Bry’s mother, Martha, was blind her entire life and never attended a single concert in his 60-year career. She couldn’t see anyway, so why bother? In 2017, at age...
In 1964, the Beatles were the biggest band in the world. But when they heard Chuck Bry was in the same hotel, they cancelled interviews, ignored screaming fans, and waited...
Little Richard and Chuck Berry refused to speak for 15 years. Both claimed, “I’m the real king of rock and roll. The rivalry was bitter, public, and legendary.” Then in...
A white teenager was being beaten to death at Chuck Bry’s concert in 1957 for dancing with a black girl. Chuck stopped his song Midverse, jumped off stage, and stood...
Elvis Presley was backstage warming up for the biggest show of his career when he heard Chuck Bry play a guitar solo. Elvis stopped singing midong, dropped his microphone, and...
For 47 seconds, Chuck Bry and a 14-year-old black girl just stood there on stage holding hands, saying nothing. The silence was deafening. Then one white man in the audience...
Reverend Thomas Greer had been conducting funeral services for 22 years. He had learned to expect the unexpected. Grief made people do strange things. But nothing in 22 years had...
20 years later, the flight attendant still keeps that napkin in a safe deposit box. Not because of what was written on it, but because of what happened after she...
In the pantheon of basketball history, there are players who break records, and then there are players who break the mold. Cheryl Miller was the latter—a force of nature in...
Greatness often begins in the most unassuming places. For Caitlin Clark, it wasn’t in a state-of-the-art training facility or under the bright lights of a national arena. It started on...