On Desert Island Discs, the former Motown Records boss Berry Gordy selected the one track he couldn't live without, which had been a hit for his label in 1965.

Berry Gordy's Motown Records defined American pop and soul music during the 1960s, but the label still exists to this day, now owned by Universial Music.

Makkah Abdur Salaam of Black Garnet Books in St. Paul recommends “A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and ...

On January 12, 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. started Tamla Records with the help of an $800 loan from his family, starting a journey that would forever change the music industry. The following year, it merged ...

Several Black celebrity brands and businesses have moved the needle on culture, business, entertainment, and more.

In the 1960s, Motown founder Berry Gordy reached out to Martin Luther King Jr. to see if the record label could help the civil rights leader in his cause for equality. “I saw Motown much like ...

Motown founder Berry ... spry Gordy, whom she lovingly calls “Uncle BB,” dancing and beaming from ear to ear. Of course, Gordy isn’t simply the mastermind who founded the label that launched ...

Just six short years later, Motown sold 15 million dollars’ worth of records and was on the ... Johnson’s single and was built by label founder Berry Gordy, Jr’s spirit of enterprise ...

According to one of his most popular songs, Sam Cooke didn’t know much about history. However, history proves the legend to be quite impactful in the entertainment industry, the focus of a five-person ...

From its artists to its founding father, Berry Gordy Jr., Motown celebrated Dr ... beyond the city – none more so than Motown, the record label founded in 1959 that brought a new, arguably ...

According to one of his most popular songs, Sam Cooke didn’t know much about history. However, history proves the legend to be quite impactful in the entertainment industry, the focus of a five ...