Troops on Linwood Avenue in Detroit on July 30, 1967. It was the best of times — and the boiling point. In the 1960s, Detroit roared with the sounds of new muscle cars and the distinctive sounds of ...

Over the years, music fans have slowly filled in details about a hard-working, mostly anonymous collective of Detroit studio musicians known as The Funk Brothers, who were the backing band for many of ...

DETROIT (AP) — An upcoming exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts takes a look at Pop Art and highlights many works acquired by the museum in the 1960s. "From Camelot to Kent State: Pop Art, 1960 ...

DETROIT -- On the 11th day of protests in Detroit, demonstrators once again sought to connect with the city’s somber history of racial inequality and struggle for civil rights. Protesters marched to ...

American Girl has embraced Motown and civil-rights era Detroit with the release late this summer of a 9-year-old African-American doll and aspiring singer named Melody Ellison. The BeForever doll grew ...

Detroit — From the 1930s to the 1950s on Detroit's east side, there was a bustling predominantly Black neighborhood with a unique culture all its own. Seventy years later, there's not much of that ...

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit’s chief of police says the number of homicides in the city in 2017 was the lowest in more than 50 years. The Detroit News cites James Craig as saying there were 267 homicides in ...

Only a few days before the PBS premiere of Call the Midwife Season 4. I am most pleased that PBS has picked up this blog to feature on its web site. I am hoping that this new exposure will lead to new ...

Though Motown's hits were recorded in a studio, newly discovered live recordings of session guitarist Dennis Coffey make the case that the label's... A Club Performance From 1960s Detroit Holds One ...

DETROIT (AP) — An upcoming exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts takes a look at Pop Art and highlights many works acquired by the museum in the 1960s. “From Camelot to Kent State: Pop Art, 1960 ...