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‘Hey, It’s Me’

Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke

by Peter Guralnick

March 9, 2006 issue

Street Diva

With Billie

by Julia Blackburn

July 14, 2005 issue

The Fall of The Black Empires

To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography

by Berry Gordy

Berry, Me, and Motown

by Raynoma Gordy Singleton

An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

by Claude Andrew Clegg III

June 10, 1999 issue

The Lost Tycoons

To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography

by Berry Gordy

Berry, Me, and Motown

by Raynoma Gordy Singleton

An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

by Claude Andrew Clegg III.

May 20, 1999 issue

How Far from Canaan?

The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church

by Michael W. Harris

Got to Tell it: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel

by Jules Schwerin

April 21, 1994 issue

Native Sons

The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring

by Terry Williams

Raw Recruits

by Alexander Wolff and Armen Keteyian

The Source: The Rap Music Decade, 1980–1990

edited by Jonathan Shecter, edited by David Mays

April 11, 1991 issue