September 15, 1972 - President Richard Nixon meets Ray Charles in the Oval Office, White House Watch on “If I go out into a march, first of all, I can’t see, number one,” Charles told ...

President Barack Obama showed off his pipes in a PBS special Friday when he led a White House audience in a rendition of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say.” CNN values your feedback 1.

James White saw parallels between his life and that of singer Ray Charles. Both were African Americans who grew up in the rural Jim Crow South and both had been heroin addicts at one time.

Ray Charles just can't stop. At 72, he's still making music that grabs the soul. Recently, he had West Wing-tips tapping at the White House Radio & Television Correspondents dinner.

He grew up to tell stories in screenplay form. Mr. White wrote the script for “Ray,” the 2004 biographical film about singer Ray Charles that was nominated for a best-picture Oscar.

The post Ray Charles Jr. Pays Tribute To His Father And Those Impacted By 9/11 appeared first on Zenger News. ... we wouldn’t have had Jimmy White, who was the writer and African American.