In the 1980s, Prince and his iconic album “Purple Rain” brought R&B and funk to the masses. For Black History Month, we’re ...

For Black History Month, we're going through the decades and discussing artists who shaped popular music. How Prince's 'Purple Rain' brought R&B and funk to the masses in the 1980s In the 1980s ...

(Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) In the 1980s, Prince and his iconic album "Purple Rain" brought R&B and funk to the masses. For Black History Month, we're going through the decades and discussing ...

Defining the British funk scene with their 1972 debut, Cymande have finally returned to the airwaves with the comeback album ...

Excavation is restoring the Rainwater Basin floor by removing fill material and sediment that had accumulated atop the clay ...

Ronson and Mars have been repeatedly sued for copyright infringement over the song. A 1980s Minneapolis funk group Collage filed a suit in 2016 and then, a year later, so did electro-funk group Zapp.

"Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)" unpacks the complicated legacy of Sly Stone. It premiered at Sundance, and hits ...

The Ultimate Warrior, born James Brian Hellwig, was from Crawfordsville. He attended Indiana State University before briefly ...

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

From San Francisco to Oakland and points in between, basketball's deep roots are found throughout the Bay Area.

After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in ...