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The show "Soul Train" was broadcast nationally on TV from 1971 through 2006. And for years, it helped shape musical tastes all across the country. But it began as a local TV show in Chicago. The ...

In the early 1970s, black artists were given a launching pad: Soul Train. Though it wasn’t the first show of its kind, it made history as the first nationally syndicated music-variety show made for ...

From 1971 to 2006, “Soul Train” was the place to see some of the hottest Black musical artists on television. But viewers didn’t just tune in for the music, they came back week after week to watch a ...

Sign for Soul Train a film inside the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Ohio that you can see. (Photo credit: Shuttestock.com/Melissa Herzog) As February rolls ...

The Apollo has long been the ultimate destination for black artists. Early on, the iconic Harlem theater launched the careers of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald on its famous Amateur Night, while ...

The collection consists of printed materials, including programs, press kits, prints, slides and posters from various award presentations given by the syndicated television program Soul Train from ...

Halfway through the premiere of “Hippest Trip – The Soul Train Musical,” the audience jumped to their feet for a standing ovation, after a riotous dance number to Bobby Brown’s 1988 hit “My ...

Pro dancer Brandon Armstrong and Chandler Kinney brought the funk on Monday's Soul Train-themed night on Dancing With the Stars. (Disney/Christopher Willard) For over 35 years, Soul Train earned its ...

“Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical” roared into San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater Wednesday night in an explosively kinetic world premiere. Dominique Morisseau’s propulsive new jukebox ...