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Lost in the Woods with James Brown's Ghost 

  • Jacque Hollander and James Brown performed at halftime of an Atlanta Falcons game in 1987.

    part 1 The Circus Singer and the Godfather of Soul

  • Adrienne Brown, third wife of James Brown, photographed for a 1988 People magazine story on her husband's domestic violence. "He has lots of guns," Adrienne told a reporter. "He has used shots to scare me."

    part 2 Was James Brown's wife murdered?

  • The Body of James Brown lays in state at the James Brown Arena in Augusta. (Photo by Chris Rank/Corbis via Getty Images)

    part 3 Fifteen questions surrounding James Brown's death

  • The body of James Brown is on display to the public at the Apollo Theater in New York, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2006.  Thousands of people danced and sang in the streets outside the Apollo Theater on Thursday in raucous celebration of the music legend's life as his body was displayed to the public on the stage where he made his 1956 debut. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

    A dozen people call for autopsy, investigation or both

Race & Reality 

  •  President Lyndon Johnson greets the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

    A new Supreme Court is poised to take a chunk out of MLK's legacy

  • Analysis: It's time to give some bigots a break