Model, Alton Mason is set to star as Little Richard in director Baz Luhrmann's biopic about Elvis. The untitled film had initially been set to open on the big screen and HBO Max in November of this year, but since pushed back.

Oakwood University is a Seventh-day Adventist HBCU where Little Richard studied theology in the 1950s. 

Little Richard's original words of a "wop bob alu bob a wop bam boom” will live on forever.