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.

So Michael Jackson will wind up picking up the baton of what should have happened to Sly. Then, 10 years later ... or a burden — which is why we call it "the burden of Black genius," there's ...

As the generations go on, Sly was unable to do that. And when he drops the baton, there was someone in the wings waiting to pick that baton up, and at the time, that person was 12 years old and that ...

Charles Oliveira fights Michael Chandler in a lightweight bout during UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden. / Brad Penner-Imagn Images The UFC officially announced earlier this week that UFC 317 will ...

For decades, Sly had been one of music’s great cautionary tales. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Sly and his band, the ...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s film charting the creative legacy of Sly Stone starring Andre 3000, Chaka Khan, Q-Tip and Nile ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his brilliant career and crushing addiction. By Rob Tannenbaum In Sly & the ...

There’s never a bad time to tie for second in a PGA Tour event, but Michael Kim picked a particularly good moment to record his first runner-up finish. With four rounds in the 60s at last week ...

By Tyler Jenke R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe has urged his social media followers to join him in a temporary boycott of Meta and its associated products to protest their part in “helping advance the ...

The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius ... Solange weren’t on my mind; if Michael [Jackson], Prince, Whitney Houston, Charlie Parker, Nina Simone, Miles Davis ...

Robin Roberts and Michael Strahan continue to have fun with their jokes and jabs at one another during Good Morning America. A recent GMA episode featured Robin calling out Michael after he shared ...

Questlove’s follow-up to ‘Summer of Soul’ is a darker film that explores the question through the famous frontman of Sly & the Family Stone “SLY LIVES! (a.k.a The Burden of Black Genius ...