Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson says that telling Sly Stone's story with empathy was a way to open a conversation about Black ...

The Grammy Award–winning bandleader for The Roots spoke with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his film on the funk musician who led Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and '70s.

I didn’t think it was right to have it out there in the world like that, where it could appear suddenly and do him harm” ...

His latest triumph, "SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)," reunites him with collaborator Questlove to explore not just the meteoric rise of Sly ...

But one performance in the documentary about 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival was singularly captivating: that of multiracial ...

Boom laka laka laka! Boom laka laka laka!” It’s hard to believe that there was a time when such an utterance was unknown to ...

The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who ... Music" is one of those accidental No. 1 songs that he didn't intend on catching on. On the 1969 song "Stand!" with the break beat at the ...