PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Almost 300 dancers who strutted, shimmied and shook their way down a Soul Train line set a world record earlier this year in Philadelphia. Guinness World Records has certified February’s Soul Train line outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the world’s longest. Two hundred ninety-one dancers took a hip trip between […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Almost 300 dancers who strutted, shimmied and shook their way down a Soul Train line set a world record earlier this year in Philadelphia. Guinness World Records has certified February’s Soul Train line outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the world’s longest. Two hundred ninety-one dancers took a hip trip between […]
Cedric The Entertainer will be your conductor this Sunday, November 25th for the 25th Soul Train Music Awards at 8 p.m. on BET and Centric. Raphael Saadiq is on board as musical director with special tributes to the late “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius as well as icon Whitney Houston. New Edition receives a Lifetime […]
Cedric The Entertainer will be your conductor this Sunday, November 25th for the 25th Soul Train Music Awards at 8 p.m. on BET and Centric. Raphael Saadiq is on board as musical director with special tributes to the late “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius as well as icon Whitney Houston. New Edition receives a Lifetime […]
Last weekend was a particularly special one for the R&B world. To celebrate the taping of the 25th annual Soul Train Music Awards, celebrities converged on Las Vegas for a 3-day weekend including a concert, a comedy show and a golf tournament. Cedric The Entertainer hosted the Awards, George Wallace was honored by fellow comics […]
From the hundreds of musicians that performed on “Soul Train” to the millions of viewers who tuned in every weekend, Don Cornelius’ vision to give Black America a platform to share our music our way became so much more than that. It opened doors for black ad agencies and black products and showed mainstream media […]
I had planned to do this blog on my way back from the Soul Train Awards, but since it was so late at night/early in the morning, I fell asleep midway. But as I rested, I reminisced about all that “Soul Train” meant to black people. If you’re an African-American of a certain age, “Soul […]
E! News has obtained the graphic autopsy results on “Soul Train” founder Don Cornelius, who died in February at the age of 75. The documents reaffirm the coroner’s ruling issued then: the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head which entered through the right temple. The autopsy report states that Cornelius […]
