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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — February is Black History Month and the National Museum of African American Music has an invitation to share. It's called Sly Lives: The Burden of a Black Genius and tells ...

Questlove rounded up an A-list group of Black musical talent to share their praises of the "Black genius" Sly Stone in the new documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius). The new film ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his ...

Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a documentary since the heyday of his eponymous, chart-topping, mixed-gender, racially ...

Questlove confronts the life and legacy of Sly Stone, investigates it ... He was, in every way, a giant: toweringly tall, if you count the Afro he wore like a crown, with that grandly toothy radiant ...

The gripping story of 1960s/early 70s musical supernova Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone, will unfold in the upcoming musical doc Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius). The first, ...

Sly Stone's struggles with cocaine have been well documented, even, at times, eclipsing his achievements as an artist. But the new documentary Sly Lives! A.k.a. The Burden of Black Genius ...

Out of all of the Bay Area’s musician geniuses, there may be none more mercurial than Sly Stone. Writer of such hits as “Everyday People” and “Dance to the Music,” his band Sly & the ...

Questlove's second documentary levels up from "Summer of Soul," exploring Sly Stone's life and legacy in ... if you count the Afro he wore like a crown, with that grandly toothy radiant dimpled ...

By Gil Kaufman The gripping story of 1960s/early 70s musical supernova Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone, will unfold in the upcoming musical doc Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black ...