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Music News

When Motown Records collaborated with Martin Luther King Jr.

Detroit’s Motown Museum will host a special tour on MLK Day about its role in the civil rights cause

By Lee DeVito
Jan 9, 2025

Tags: Music News, Civil Rights, Critics’ Picks, Motown, Berry Gordy, Martin Luther King, Motown Museum
Michigan Music

SiriusXM announces new show ‘Live from Motown Museum’

The weekly show will be hosted by Detroit Pistons announcer John Mason and Levi Stubbs III, whose father was a founding member of the Four Tops

By Lee DeVito
Sep 5, 2024

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Media, Motown, Motown Museum, Detroit music
Music News

Rashida Tlaib wants to reform the music industry with Living Wage for Musicians Act

The legislation aims to give artists their fair share, who earn only fractions of a penny per digital streams

By Lee DeVito
Mar 6, 2024

Tags: Music News, Government, Labor, Rashida Tlaib, Shigeto, Motown Museum, Detroit music industry, Slideshow
Metro Detroit

Motown Museum hosting job fair to fill various open positions

This is your chance to be part of the Motown magic

By Layla McMurtrie
Dec 1, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit, Labor, Music, News, Things to Do, Motown Museum, Detroit jobs, Hitsville Next, employment in Detroit, Slideshow
Metro Detroit

Motown Museum unveils immersive exhibits and progress on expansion campaign

New experiences will showcase stories of Motown legends through music and photo archives

By Layla McMurtrie
Oct 5, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Music, News, Motown Museum, Music, Detroit Music, Hitsville USA, The Temptations
Michigan Music

Afro Nation festival donates $100k to Detroit’s Motown Museum

Organizers also gave more than 3,000 tickets to local first responders and nonprofits

By Lee DeVito
Aug 22, 2023

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Local Businesses, Afro Nation, Detroit, Motown Museum, Slideshow
Michigan Music

Motown Museum receives $10,000 grant on ‘Good Morning America’

Retired public school teacher ‘Miss Katherine’ was spotlighted on the show

By Layla McMurtrie
Aug 14, 2023

Tags: Michigan Music, Music, Local Businesses, The Motown Museum, Good Morning America, Hitsville NEXT, Motown Museum
Music News

Motown Museum launches new residency program for young entrepreneurs

Pop Shop Entrepreneur in Residence Program will give four teenagers a summer pop-up plus an $800 stipend to fuel their business

By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 10, 2023

Tags: Music News, Music, Motown Museum, Hitsville NEXT
Michigan Music

Detroit’s Motown Museum is hosting a job fair

Open positions include roles in HR, retail, curation, tour guides, education, and more

By Lee DeVito
Feb 23, 2023

Tags: Local Music, Music, Motown Museum, jobs in Detroit, Hitsville NEXT, careers in Detroit, Motown Historical Museum
Culture

Don’t mind the construction, the Motown Museum is reopening for tours

The museum is still in the final phase of its planned $65 million expansion

By Randiah Camille Green
Feb 2, 2023

Tags: Culture, Music, Motown Museum, Hitsville USA, culture
Music News

Universal Music Group partners with Motown Museum for career development program

The after-school program is also offered in Los Angeles, Nashville, and Atlanta

By Alex Washington
Dec 5, 2022

Tags: Music News, Music, Motown Museum, Detroit, Hitsville USA, record label, Detroit record label
Culture

Detroit’s Motown Museum is looking fresh in newly dropped renderings of expansion plans

OK, Motown Museum, we see you ✨

By Randiah Camille Green
Sep 7, 2022

Tags: Culture, Arts & Culture, Motown Museum, Motown, Culture, Arts & Culture
Metro Detroit

Motown Museum in line for $10M from Congress

The iconic Hittsville, U.S.A. building is undergoing ambitious upgrades

By Steve Neavling
Sep 2, 2022

Tags: Metro Detroit News, Music, Motown, Motown Museum, Detroit, grant, Congress, U.S. House
ICYMI

Cheech and Chong in a bong: The top 10 Metro Times headlines

Here’s what our readers were interested in this week

By Alex Washington
Aug 12, 2022

Tags: ICYMI, ICYMI, Cheech and Chong, marijuana, cannabis, Michigan, election, republican, Tudor Dixon, Motown Museum
Music News

Motown songwriter and producer Lamont Dozier dies at 81

Dozier co-wrote some of Motown’s biggest hits like ‘Baby Love’ and ‘Stop! In the Name of Love’

By Randiah Camille Green
Aug 9, 2022

Tags: Music News, Music, Lamont Dozier, Motown, Music News, Motown Museum, Holland-Dozier-Holland
Culture

Detroit’s Motown Museum unveils highly anticipated expansion, gets ready to reopen doors

The museum will have a soft reopening and resume abbreviated walking tours starting Aug. 14

By Randiah Camille Green
Aug 9, 2022

Tags: Culture, Music, Motown Museum, Culture, Arts & Culture, Otis Williams, Smokey Robinson
Music News

Detroit's Motown Museum unveils plans for new plaza

By Lee DeVito
Oct 10, 2021

Tags: Motown Museum, Detroit, Motown, music
Arts

Flooding and expansion efforts close Motown Museum until 2022

By Jerilyn Jordan
Jul 19, 2021

Tags: The Scene, Motown Museum, Motown, Barry Gordy, Hitsville USA, closure, museum closed, Detroit, Marvin Gaye
Music News

Motown Museum to celebrate 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' with events, merch

By Jerilyn Jordan
May 17, 2021

Tags: City Slang, Marvin Gaye, Detroit, What's Going On, Motown Museum, Hitsville, Rolling Stone
Music News

Motown founder Berry Gordy donates $4 million to Motown Museum expansion

By Sonia Khaleel
Sep 4, 2019

Tags: City Slang, Motown Museum, Hitsville USA, donation, Berry Gordy, expansion project

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