In “Sly Lives!” and “Becoming Led Zeppelin,” the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become ...

Everett Stone, who made it on Wall Street, returns home for Christmas with his new girlfriend Meredith Morton. His ultra-liberal, anti-conventional, rustic Connecticut family doesn't exactly warm ...

Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the influential Sly and the Family Stone front man. It also probes a question that's even more interesting.

Questlove’s previous film, “Summer of Soul,” won Sundance’s grand jury and audience awards for its exploration of a summer concert series in New York, with a Sly & the Family Stone ...

"This is a movie about Sly Stone," he tells UCR, "but it's also about the burden that comes with success for Black artists in America." 50 Years Ago: Sly and Family Stone Splinter on 'Family ...

that Sly & the Family Stone and Led Zeppelin —±are the two greatest rock bands of all time. (Prince might have, for example.) Both are the subject of strong new documentaries; each film deals ...

The film concludes with the hometown heroes ... Zeppelin’s trajectory is arguably just as tragic as that of the Family Stone. Yet so much depends on how these bands’ stories are told.