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Author Bethonie Butler talks about her new book… the first of its kind to celebrate the groundbreaking, influential, and often under-appreciated shows centered on Black people and their ...
Our Halloween show wouldn’t be complete without a spooky edition of ‘Soul Train’ with Fenwick High School students!
In 1954, Chicagoan George E. Johnson took out a loan for a couple hundred dollars and turned into the first Black-owned company to be listed on the American Stock Exchange. As the founder of ...
The 2023 Soul Train Awards aired Sunday night and it was a good time, especially for singer SZA. The awards show – which honors the best in Black culture, music and entertainment, and is named ...
Decades before MTV’s “TRL,” BET’s “106 & Park” and NPR’s “Tiny Desk,” to name just a few, Soul Train was chugga-chugging along, shaping ideas of cool across dance, fashion and ...