Motown

Motown: The Soundtrack of Young America

For Black Music Month, we examine the groundbreaking record label that gave us everyone from Marvin Gaye to Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5.
06/06/2023

Motown Legends Celebrate The Museum’s Expansion

Smokey Robinson and an original member of The Temptations Otis Williams were in attendance.
08/09/2022

Wanda Young, A Member Of Motown's The Marvelettes, Has Passed Away

The legendary singer was 78 years old.
12/18/2021

This Day in Black History: Nov. 28, 1929

Music mogul Berry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit.
11/28/2020

The Legacy Of Motown: Black Music Is Pop Music

Motown was at the precipice of today's music landscape.
03/11/2019

Jennifer Lopez's Motown Tribute At The Grammys Has The Internet Torn In Half...

"Seriously. Who commissioned this?"
02/10/2019

Jennifer Lopez Is Doing A Motown Tribute, And Fans Are Trying To Figure Out How We Got Here

Make it make sense.
02/06/2019

Michael Jackson's 'Off The Wall' will be Reissued with a Spike Lee Documentary

This is it!
01/07/2016

Gladys Knight and the Pips Member William Guest Dies At 74

Singer succumbs to congestive heart failure.
12/28/2015

E. Lynn Harris' Invisible Life Is Coming to the Stage

The best-selling novel opens at the Apollo Theater tonight.
06/25/2015