Four of R&B's most celebrated voices brought decades of musical excellence to a nearly sold-out Chicago crowd Friday night.

The band's hype man, who energized crowds with his energetic choreography, died in a car crash over the weekend ...

Michael Sumler, who was the iconic stylist, promoter and choreographer for the group Kool & the Gang, died Sunday in a car crash in Georgia, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 71. 11Alive, a news ...

George E. Johnson built Afro Sheen, backed Soul Train, and launched the first Black-owned company on the American Stock Exchange. His memoir is a blueprint.

It’s hard to talk about Black music without talking about “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius. The Chicago native, who got his start on local radio and television, wanted to create a program ...

The L train experiences its worst delays yet, Godzilla interrupts a major sporting event, and a new Chicago-based superhero ... Ezra Clayton Daniels (Upgrade Soul, BTTM FDRS)!

Crystal McCarey showed off her steps on “Soul Train” for over a decade. The Chicago native danced on the show from 1976 to 1989. She says she drew inspiration from her mother, a professional ...

"Soul Train," the dance show hosted by DJ Don Cornelius ... minutes of commercials for each episode as it expanded from a Chicago broadcast to a national Los Angeles-based production in color.

The Chicago Bears have a grand total of one Lombardi ... we were able to watch Sweetness drop some steps on the old-school dance show, Soul Train. Admittedly, Payton’s moves were legit, thus ...

By 1964, Nashville's success pushed WLAC-TV to (five years before Chicago's "Soul Train" debuted) use WLAC radio competitor WVOL's radio executive and program host Noble Blackwell to host the ...

Cobb and Don Cornelius, creator of “Soul Train,” worked together at a radio station in the 1960s before the latter launched the series in 1971, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The variety ...