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Soul Train Impact

Recap: The 3rd Annual Spring Soul Train Impact

The 3rd Annual Spring Soul Train Impact showcase and seminar was an entertaining and informative experience. Held at the prestigious Columbia College-Chicago this past April 10, 2013, the event was filled with an awesome line up of talent followed by …

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Q&A: Chuck D–Yo! Bum Rush The Hall of Fame

Public Enemy is the undisputed benchmark in demanding social change through the power of hip-hop. Although many artists and groups of all different genres of

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Q&A: Drew Leach–Soul Train’s First Director

Drew Leach is a deejay in South Bend, Illinois who has a lot of directing and production work to his credit. One of those credits

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Essential Soul: Philadelphia Soul Music

The sounds of Philadelphia soul music have rhythmically stretched far and wide throughout the last four decades. Many R&B/soul music lovers may not know that

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Soul Retrospective: The Average White Band

Although people think 1974’s Average White Band (affectionately known as the White Album) was their first release, it was actually the Average White Band’s second.

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The 80s: ‘Beverly Hills Cop’

Eddie Murphy had already made a name for himself as the shining star of the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1980.  Two years later

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80s Acts, 90s Hits

Plenty of acts ruled the 80s, or at least made their imprint on the decade with a string of recognizable hits. As the 80s became

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Diary of an Ex-SoulTrain Dancer Presents: Crescendo Ward

When one thinks of Soul Train and its dancers, some forget that the program started locally in Chicago first and had its own fantastic dancers

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The 80s: Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

In addition to being hot artists in the 1980s, the group Full Force had a hot hand when it came to production.  Throughout their 30-plus

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Movie Review: ’42′

In case you didn't know much about Jackie Robinson, the new film 42 (Robinson’s uniform number) explores the baseball legend’s triumphs and downfalls in the



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