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Michael Jackson’s First Moonwalk: Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago this month: on May 14, Syria rejected Lebanon’s attempt to persuade it to go along with the U.S.-based plan for an Israeli troop withdrawal; on May 2, a 6.7 earthquake injured 487 in Coalinga, California; on May …

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Q&A: Bridgette Cooper

Bridgette Cooper is an accomplished award-winning and critically-acclaimed opera singer, actress and humanitarian. She has been heralded as one of the voices of the new

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Soul Train History Book: Don Cornelius Goes Down the Soul Train Line

Forty years ago this month, a once in a lifetime event occurred on the Soul Train television show. Don Cornelius, the program's host, made his

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Classic Soul Cinema Presents: ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song’

Legendary filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles perhaps had no clue about the movement he was going to start in black cinema and film as a whole

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Classic Soul Train Album: Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes’ ‘Wake Up Everybody’

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes were one of the finest and popular groups to record on Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records

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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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Q&A: Force M.D.’s–“1-2 Step”

Do you remember old school songs from the 80s such as "Tears," "Let Me Love You," and "Love is a House?" Well, the versatile legendary

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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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Soul Train History Book Presents: The Soul Train Dance Contest

In the 1972-1973 season of Soul Train, the program’s dancers, the Soul Train Gang, were featured in a dance contest. A dance contest had been held

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Classic Soul Train Cinema Presents: ‘The Mack’

1973 was the year when the so-called "blaxploitation" movie craze was at its height. Numerous films were released in that genre in that one year.



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