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Jim DeRogatis

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Jim DeRogatis is an author, an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago, and the co-host of the nationally syndicated public radio show “Sound Opinions.” He spent 15 years as the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times. His latest book is “Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly” (Abrams, 2019).

“We all need to be investigative critics”

“We all need to be investigative critics”

Journalist Jim DeRogatis has been on the R. Kelly story for about two decades. In 2000, after he published allegations that the R&B superstar had sexually abused girls, Kelly’s career…