The Black Beat

BET’s revival of MTV’s Punk’d premiered on Tuesday with Chris Brown as its first victim. The singer is led to believe he’s about to shoot a video with French Montana. On the remote set, he comes across a 9-year-old fan who tells him her parents are nowhere to be found and left her alone on […]

Love, peace and soul was the ‘Soul Train’ mantra and writer Nelson George has put all of the above into his new book, Soul Train: The Hippest Trip In America. George, a cultural critic who’s written over 15 books, says that he wrote the book to tell the accurate story of the show’s history as […]