Editor’s note: It’s been 50 years since Berry Gordy founded Motown, a record company that launched scores of careers, created a signature sound in popular music and even helped bridge the racial ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Motown has always been about more than music. As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the "Motown sound" that remains ...

Fifty years later, Motown Records Corp. and its stable of largely African-American artists have become synonymous with the musical, social and cultural fabric of America. The company spawned household ...

The Motown Years (also known as The Motown Years 50) is a 3-disc compilation box set by American singer Michael Jackson and the group The Jackson 5, released on September 9, 2008, by Motown Records ...

Motown Records honored its 50th anniversary in style Saturday night, as music icons from Stevie Wonder to Berry Gordy showed up to celebrate half a century of chart-topping hits from the Detroit ...

It seems like every Detroiter has a Motown origin story. For Jamon Jordan, that story starts in his family living room, where his mother had an extensive stereo system and a sprawling collection of ...