Rhythm and blues is an inclusive term that captures a wide swatch of American popular music that began to infiltrate the mainstream after WWII. It grew out of disparate sources: delta blues, country, ...

The singer and songwriter’s influential hits included “Clean Up Woman” and “Where is the Love.” Betty Wright performs the national anthem before a 2013 NBA game between the Miami Heat and the New York ...

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, the director of the new documentary “Soul Power,” was a film editor in 1995 for “When We Were Kings,” the Oscar-winning documentary directed by Leon Gast about “The Rumble in the ...

You may not have ever heard the words "Southern soul," but you've definitely heard the music. For starters, everybody knows Otis Redding and Al Green. They're the two biggest names to come out of the ...