*LOS ANGELES, CA – The 21st Century White Negro…The Erasure of the Soul and History of Rhythm and Blues. In 1957, Pulitzer Prize winning author, playwright, journalist and essayist Norman Mailer, ...

R&B music has long served as a sonic sanctuary — an environment where pain meets poetry and vulnerability transforms into strength. It's more than just rhythm and melody; it's a deeply sentimental ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

Grand Opening Launches Phase I of the Nation's Largest Outdoor Gallery Dedicated to Delta Music and Culture for the 100(th) Black History Month PINE BLUFF, Ark., Feb. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The City ...

What is R&B, where’d it come from and where’d it go? An array of five-star entertainers will give a musical answer to these questions when the Manship Theatre presents the "Rhythm and Blues Revue" at ...

"Rhythm and Blues Revue", is a 1955 feature film compiled by Studio Films, Inc. from previously recorded Snader Telescriptions featuring renowned African American jazz singers and musicians from the ...

Warren Storm (February 18, 1937 – September 7, 2021) was an American drummer and vocalist, known as a pioneer of the musical genre swamp pop; a combination of rhythm and blues, country and western, ...

John Broven’s newly revised, expanded and updated Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans, originally issued as Walking to New Orleans, is the definitive, go-to source for anyone interested in the deep ...

This year is the 50th anniversary of John Broven’s classic history of New Orleans rhythm and blues. Groundbreaking at the time of its British publication in August 1974, Rhythm and Blues in New ...