Vocalist and actress Abbey Lincoln, who morphed from torch singer to uncompromising musical-political firebrand at the height of the civil rights movement, died Saturday in New York. She was 80.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, whose six-decade career included acting and composing, and who participated in the U.S. civil rights movement, died in New York on Saturday at age 80, ...

Lincoln, who married Roach in 1962, was for a while more active as an actress than a singer. In 1964, she starred with Ivan Dixon in Nothing but a Man, a tale of the Deep South in the 1960s, and in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a career spanning half a century, Abbey Lincoln turned her back on the image-makers who wanted to turn her into a Marilyn Monroe in sepia. Instead, she chose to go her own way as an ...

With a different program and personnel each night, Lincoln will perform more than 35 of her compositions, joined by special guests JOE LOVANO, SAVION GLOVER, FREDDY COLE, STEVE COLEMAN, MARC CARY, and ...

In the latest installment of the series Tell Me More About Women's History, NPR's Felix Contreras salutes vocalist Abbey Lincoln. And finally, we end today's program with our segment Tell Me More ...

Abbey Lincoln, a singer whose dramatic vocal command and tersely poetic songs made her a singular figure in jazz, died on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 80 and lived on the Upper West Side. Her death ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jazz singer Abbey Lincoln, whose six-decade career included acting and composing, and who participated in the civil rights movement, died in New York on Saturday at age 80, The ...

Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer and songwriter known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style, died Saturday in New York at age 80. She had been declining in health for the past year. Her death ...