Summer Walker, SZA, Usher and Beyonce are among the nominees for this year's ceremony, which airs on BET Sunday, Nov. 26. By Tim Chan Some of music’s biggest stars take to the stage in Los Angeles ...

Blue-Eyed Soul Singers We LoveBecause Music Has No Color...Music is the universal language of love, this we know, and artists like Adele remind us that music has no color. As we celebrate Black Music ...

However culture-shifting history proves Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter, to be, it’s not unprecedented. For generations, artists have blurred the supposed lines between country music, R&B, soul, ...

The newspaper, which started in 1966 with a focus on R&B, funk and disco, shut down in 1982. But one of its founders’ grandsons is devoted to finding it a new online audience. By Christopher Petkanas ...

Heart & Soul, along with surrounding neighbors, will present its 10th annual Music Stroll. Liz Adeola sits with Heart & Soul’s board president, Tom Stillinger, to talk about the 10th annual Heart & ...

A new audio documentary called The Albina Soul Walk chronicles the birth of a music scene and the injustices that destroyed it and devastated a community. Walk down North Williams Avenue near the ...

A veteran freelance journalist who specializes in music criticism, book reviews and feature articles about popular culture, Wolff has written or co-authored six books. This one is his fourth published ...

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The future of the BET Hip Hop Awards and Soul Train Music Awards is in limbo. In a recent interview with Billboard, BET CEO Scott Mills confirmed that the two staple awards ceremonies will not return ...

As far back as he can remember, Dante Carfagna has collected soul records. He maintains his bounty in his third-floor walk-up apartment on a single floor-to-ceiling shelving unit, stacked with white ...

HAS it got soul? Man, that’s the question of the hour. If it has soul, then it’s tough, beautiful, out of sight. It passes the test of with-itness. It has the authenticity of collard greens boiling on ...

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s. Steve Cropper in 1973. His guitar licks could ...