Among the most noteworthy absences from his version is the soul. Why Psalms with no soul and no salvation? Robert Alter tells Robert Siegel that those are concepts superimposed on the ancient ...

With the passing of of our favorite Blue-eyed soul singer Bobby Caldwell this year, it had us thinking…this is a great time to praise some of the best white soul singers, again. We’ve already ...

“The studio’s first Black Protagonist needed the soul of a middle-aged white woman to get his life on track,” snarked one critic of the cinematic white savior-ism. “Thank you for being ...

They were seen through the lens of white America. “Soul Train” changed the focus. It lifted the veil on black America and showed blacks being themselves, and not as whites imagined them ...