We Get By, Mavis Staples’ 12th studio album, out today, opens with a mission statement: “Gotta change around here.” Since she first began singing with her family — her father, Pops, and siblings ...

Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images This week, the legendary singer and civil rights figure Mavis Staples is turning 85 and there's no sign of her slowing down: She released a new song, "Worthy," and a ...

After more than seven decades onstage, the gospel and soul great decided last year that it was time to retire. Then she realized she still had work to do. By Grayson Haver Currin Reporting from ...

Hey Day Happy Hour: 4-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-7, at Hey Nonny, 10 S. Vail Ave., Arlington Heights. Music by Jon Allegretto on Friday and Ian Leith on ...

Mavis Staples, the gospel and R&B legend who was a prominent voice of the civil rights movement, was one of the artists recognized at Tuesday night’s Kennedy Center Honors in a flawless performance by ...

The new record, which was announced Tuesday (March 15), was recorded in Woodstock, New York at Levon Helm Studios in the summer of 2011. The collaboration marks one of Helm’s final recordings before ...

Mavis Staples remembers. In her new children’s book, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, she reaches back to when her father determined the type of music that was permissible to play ...