The new documentary “Sly Lives, aka the Burden of Black Genius,” which focuses on the life and career of the brilliant but ...

One critic said the group was too hot and Black to be rock, too positive to be the Blues, and too wild to be Soul. Sly's ...

You could speculate that this bravado might have been a cover. Or perhaps Questlove wanted to have a broader conversation about the nuanced effects of fame on Black figures, using Stewart’s story as a ...

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 headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and ... Sly had released this really intelligent debut album called A Whole New Thing, which ...

Sly Stone's daughter, Phunne Stone, recalled what it was like growing up with the funk artist in a new documentary titled ...