(JTA) — Julius Lester, an African-American singer, scholar and activist whose conversion to Judaism in 1982 came as a shock to those who only remembered his role in a bitter, racially charged school ...

Chicago Cubs national anthem singer Wayne Messmer says his road to starring in a one-man show about a priest in Hawaii began with some lessons from Franciscan nuns when he was in the fourth grade at ...

Bobby Lester Singer, lovingly known to his family as 'Pap', was born on February 6th, 1929 to Guy Oscar Singer and Leaster DeVallison Wilkinson of Little Dixie, OK and passed away on September 17th, ...

Julius Lester was teaching guitar and performing as a folk singer in New York City when he decided to go to Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Lester tells of his role in energizing the people ...