In 1970, Don Cornelius stepped out on faith again and took $400 of his own money to create the pilot for “Soul Train,” a television show modeled after Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand ...

For 35 years, Soul Train was the beating heart of Black pop culture in America, considered appointment television for the millions of people who tuned in to discover the latest trends in music ...

Cobb is seeking at least $75,000 in back royalties. “As described by Don Cornelius himself, I am the voice of ‘Soul Train,’” Cobb explained. “It’s like I never existed.

“’Soul Train’ offered Blackness in its funkified essence,” wrote Todd Boyd, a cinema and media studies professor at USC, for the L.A. Times in 1995.

"Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical," playing in San Francisco through Oct. 8, applauds the series' triumphs while also acknowledging its controversies.

Quentin Earl Darrington portrays Don Cornelius in “Hippest Trip — The Soul Train Musical,” playing at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco through Oct. 8.

“Soul Train” was the place to go each week for the hottest sounds in R&B, soul, and eventually hip hop, and Cornelious was its engineer. The show featured hip dancers, a few of whom became ...

Late Soul Train creator Don Cornelius has been accused of locking up and sexually assaulting two Playboy bunnies decades ago in a new docuseries. Erstwhile "bunny mother" P.J. Masten was seen ...

Don Cornelius, creator of the legendary disco-era show Soul Train, died Wednesday morning in an apparent suicide. But he’ll be remembered for creating a show that made viewers want to shake ...

December 22, 2021 Soul Train and the Desire for Black Power Don Cornelius’s faith that Black culture would attract a mass audience—and his devout belief that Black culture should be in the ...

After Don Cornelius launched “Soul Train” as a local TV show in Chicago in 1970, it went grooving into national syndication on Oct. 2, 1971, creating a soul-music community where fans across ...