Plenty of actors elicit emotion with their expressions, but few can deliver goosebumps with their voice alone. And no voice was as powerfully evocative—or iconic—as the deep, throaty rumble of James ...

Mufasa: The Lion King has a touching tribute to one of the franchise's original stars, as it begins with a James Earl Jones quote. The 2024 Disney movie is a prequel to 2019's "live-action" The Lion ...

The young James Earl Jones suffered from a debilitating stutter. Shy and self-conscious, young James was encouraged to try theater as a way to overcome it. Perhaps the teacher saw his future potential ...

James Earl Jones, the prolific film, TV and theater actor whose resonant, unmistakable baritone was most widely known as the voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, died Monday morning at his home ...

Before knowing who he was, Aaron Pierre felt James Earl Jones in his soul. While Pierre plays a young Mufasa in the Disney prequel “Mufasa: The Lion King” (in theaters now), Jones originated the ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...