The Motown Museum’s Founder’s Day Celebration returns Sunday for an afternoon of music and performances to honor the institution and the woman who started it, Esther Gordy Edwards, the late sister of ...

With his new book, "Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar" (Chicago Review Press, $26.95), author Peter Benjaminson, a former reporter at the Detroit Free Press, now has three ...

From 1965 until 1985, Berry Gordy's little brother helped grow Jobete Music from a holding company for copyrights into a music publishing force. By Adam White Robert Louis Gordy, Sr., younger brother ...

The Chairman has stepped down — and likely taken his final bow in Detroit. Berry Gordy, the Detroit native who built Motown Records from a shoestring operation into a music, film and television empire ...

The love was flowing strong in the room as Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. celebrated his 96 th birthday. At a party Saturday, Nov. 29, teeming with famous friends, fellow music executives and family ...

DETROIT — The Motown mogul who launched the careers of numerous stars like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, and Michael Jackson has announced his retirement. The Detroit Free Press reports Berry Gordy said ...

Upon the 65 th anniversary of the record label, CU Boulder prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new’ Shawn O’Neal, assistant teaching professor ...