"Mr. Ales was one of [Berry] Gordy's most indispensable executives throughout the 1960s, when Motown became a ubiquitous force in American pop culture and a prime symbol of black enterprise at the height of the civil rights movement. Officially, he was in charge of sales and promotion. But as a high-ranking white executive at a […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:42PM on April 30, 2020