Ryan Coogler's latest film, "Sinners," a spicy cinematic gumbo of African American folk tale, painful racial history and ...

Sinners throws the musical symbolism of the era into the narrative. At the center of all of them is that of Robert Johnson (1911–1938), perhaps the most influential blues musician in history. Therein ...

Warning: This essay contains spoilers for the film Sinners. There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always been instructive ...

Blues isn't simply the mother of sin; it is a nexus point along the continuum of Black music, birthing so many modern forms. In Sinners, vampires are the ultimate culture vultures, with the "soul ...

Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan as the twins Smoke and Stack, who have returned to Clarksdale, Miss., intent on opening a juke joint after working for (and ripping off) Al Capone's Chicago Outfit.