“What’s Going On,” crafted in a season of unease, persists as a backdrop to another heated summer, 50 years later, when the world feels upside down.
Author: Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press
Kanye West plays new album ‘Jesus Is King’ for fans in Detroit; will drop Sunday
The rapper’s Detroit adventure with Kim Kardashian continued Friday as fans at the Fox got the first listen to his upcoming album “Jesus Is King.”
Stevie Wonder will have kidney transplant surgery in September
The Motown star broke his silence about about his health status, announcing at a Saturday festival that he’ll be taking a break.
Eminem tape reels were backed up digitally just months before devastating Universal fire
The Detroit rapper’s session tapes may have been destroyed in a fire that claimed some of history’s biggest music, but his team got copies.
Aretha Franklin’s handwritten wills reveal window into her private world: Read them here
Though Aretha Franklin was thought to have left no will when died in 2018, she apparently put extensive thought into a series of handwritten wills.
‘Motown 60’: Everything you need to know about the star-studded tribute show
A look behind the scenes as “Motown 60: A Grammy Celebration,” taped in Los Angeles in February, hits the nation’s TV screens Sunday night.
Pulitzer exec on Aretha Franklin’s award: Queen of Soul ‘reflects the best of the best’
The Detroit singer’s vast, rich body of work made the case for the special citation bestowed Monday by the Pulitzers, the board administrator says.
Aretha Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace’ film: Detroit premiere is ‘back to ground zero’
It was a movie premiere with meaning – and lots of hometown heart – Monday night as Aretha Franklin’s “Amazing Grace” at last made its Detroit premiere.
Aretha Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace’ movie premieres in Detroit on her 77th birthday
Al Sharpton and others will be on hand as “Amazing Grace” premieres at the DIA on Monday — what would have been the Queen of Soul’s 77th birthday.
New Motown exhibit curated by the Grammy Museum headed to LBJ Presidential Library
Vintage Motown fashion, instruments and interactive displays will be part of “Motown: The Sound of Young America,” opening in April in Austin, Texas.