CARBONDALE — The new year begins with great news for Saluki Football. All-American quarterback DJ Williams announced on Monday that he will return to Southern Illinois for his final season of college ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - A Shreveport-born native, with a Louisiana & Texas feel in his music, has won an AMG/Southern Soul Life award. Soul artist CUZNJED, from Shreveport, Louisiana, has won the AMG ...

There was no way to know it at the time, but mainstream hip-hop reached its creative peak in the ’90s. Lyrical dexterity and thematic ambition were still widely valued. Complex beats could still be ...

MCCORMICK, S.C.(WJBF) – Southern Soul Cafeteria has been a welcome addition to the McCormick food scene and for this episode of “Your Hometown Road Trip,” the team stopped in and spoke with owner, ...

Melissa Weber can’t remember exactly how she discovered “Soul Train,” but on New Orleans TVs, the groove-filled music and dance show dedicated to R&B, soul, funk and Black empowerment aired at 11 a.m.

The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in post-pandemic recovery. In a decade, Mississippi moved from 49th to seventh ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Steve Cropper, a storied guitarist, songwriter and producer who helped define the Southern soul sound at legendary Memphis music label Stax Records, died on Wednesday in Nashville, ...

CARBONDALE — Before the 2025 season began, Southern Illinois University quarterback DJ Williams made a list of goals that he put up on his wall. On Tuesday, he checked another one off — Payton Award ...

Cabin in the Sky, the iconic hip-hop group’s first album in nearly a decade, movingly honors co-founder Dave “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, who died in 2023 Nearly four decades after banding together as ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — This week, the Eat It Up crew found a new and very exciting soul food truck in mid-town Little Rock that may just be the next great spot in the capital city. Souf Mouf Southern ...

Southern soul is the blues and the rhythm. The country and the western. The Sunday church sermon and the choir. The line dance and the celebration. It’s Otis Redding and Ray Charles. Little Richard ...