Through the Sixties and Seventies, Motown Records was a culture-shifting force: Founded by Berry Gordy in 1959, it became one of the world's most successful black-owned businesses, an independent, trend-setting, discrimination-defying juggernaut. Names like Smokey Robinson,
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Motown Records Is Its Strongest in Years: How the Legendary Label Got Its Groove Back