"More than a straight-forward account of Kelly's wrongdoing. "Kelly's dirty secrets are revealed in this book, and so is the wide gap between true justice and the law."- AV Club This book is a must-read look at both the devastating actions of an unrepentant predator and the dogged work of a journalist who refuses to let him escape accountability." - Jamilah Lemieux, writer and cultural critic Kelly's crimes for all these years has always stunned me, because I am completely unused to anyone other than Black women and girls caring this much about anything that happens to us. "Jim DeRogatis' dedication to covering R. Soulless is an astonishing document of journalistic doggedness, and one man's decades-long pursuit of justice and truth."- Renee Graham, Boston Globe opinion columnist No one has followed their harrowing stories longer than DeRogatis, a mensch and one hell of a reporter. Kelly would still be selling out arenas, and the women who accuse the singer of sexual and physical assault would still be unheard. This Soulless is a deep dive into some of the darkest places in a community and a culture, a post mortem for a predator and for the system that enabled him."- Mikki Kendall, author of Hood Feminism and Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists Jim has elevated black women and their work into the public eye, even when the public wanted to ignore what was happening. "For the last 19 years Jim DeRogatis has consistently been one of the few white male voices in media speaking up about a criminal whose crimes spans decades. the culmination of DeRogatis' career reporting on Kelly's alleged behavior."- USA Today
Soulless is the kind of intervention we need, especially when the stakes are this high."- LitHub is unflinching in its indictment of a culture and legal system unable to render any semblance of justice for black girls. "DeRogatis blends investigative journalism, pop cultural criticism, and social commentary. It's also a journalistic indictment: of Kelly himself of the political machinery of Chicago and of the music industry. Soulless is an important testament of DeRogatis' slog towards justice, and of the forces that have seemingly cosseted R. "An absorbing, horrifying, and damning book. A piercing work of investigative journalism."- Kirkus harrowingly detailed meticulously described. In explicitly outlining the multiple junctures at which Kelly, his supporters, law enforcement, and journalists have failed the dozens of young black women whom Kelly is accused of abusing, DeRogatis definitively-if also wearily-conveys the sheer magnitude of Kelly's relative impunity."- The Atlantic "A devastating, thorough accounting of Kelly's alleged abuses as systematized predation. "A comprehensive document of the many allegations of statutory rape, sexual assault, and physical and psychological abuse levied against R. "DeRogatis captivates in this expertly told narrative"- Publishers Weekly Kelly, and their horrible impact on dozens of girls, by the only person to tell it. Decades in the making, this is an outrageous, darkly riveting account of the life and actions of R. It tells the story of Kelly's career, DeRogatis's investigations, and the world in which the two crossed paths, and brings the story up to Kelly's criminal reckoning. Kelly is DeRogatis's masterpiece, a work of tenacious journalism and powerful cultural criticism. He was the one who was given the disturbing videotape that led to Kelly's 2008 child pornography trial, the one whose window was shot out, and the one whom women trusted to tell their stories-of a meeting with the superstar at a classroom, a mall, a concert, or a McDonald's that forever warped the course of their lives. But for more than eighteen years, DeRogatis stayed on the story.
No one seemed to care: not the music industry, not the culture at large, not the parents of numerous other young girls. DeRogatis thought his work would have an impact. Kelly had a problem with "young girls." Weeks later, DeRogatis broke the shocking story, publishing allegations that the R&B superstar and local hero had groomed girls, sexually abused them, and paid them off. Kelly's actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making In November 2000, Chicago journalist and music critic Jim DeRogatis received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Book Synopsis The essential account of R.
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