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Legendary TV personality Don Cornelius was born on this day in 1936. Cornelius changed the face of black entertainment as creator and host of Soul Train, which celebrated black music and dance like nothing else before.

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Former NBA player turned business mogul Magic Johnson is trying his damnedest to top himself. After purchasing the Los Angeles Dodgers, Johnson has set his…

Bernice Jenkins called heaven to talk to her late friend Cora, and also had a chance to talk to several dead celebs. Hear what Gerald LeVert, Don Cornelius, Dr. Martin Luther King, James Brown and Michael Jackson said to Bernice Jenkins in the audio player below! Text “Rickey” To 80185…Standard Messaging Rates Apply Listen to Bernice Jenkins […]

It’s been almost two months since the passing of music legend Don Cornelius. The autopsy report is now being announced. By now, we all know…

Saturday afternoon, a  flash mob took over Times Square in New York City to honor the memory of “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius.  Playing 70’s classics like The Jackson Five’s “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”, some fans really got into the spirit by donning Afro wigs and roller skates and grooved down the now […]

Long before MTV thought that Black music was cool (or profitable), Don Cornelius made it a nationally televised, weekly must-see event. SEE ALSO: Questions With Common Ochocinco Relegated To The Sideline It takes being a student of history or simply being alive in 1971, the year Cornelius introduced “Soul Train” to the American television audience, […]

ABC News reports that Soul Train founder, Don Cornelius, underwent a “21-hour operation in 1982 to correct a congenital malformation in blood vessels in his brain.” During a 1995 interview with The Washington Post, Cornelius said he was not the same person after the operation. SEE ALSO: Five Things Black People Learned From Don Cornelius […]

Don Cornelius and his ex-wife, Viktoria Chapman Cornelius, did not end their union on good terms. Towards the end of their marriage, the late television icon was convicted of domestic abuse. She was also believed to have pepper sprayed him multiple times. Though the two finalized their divorce in 2009, Chapman will be the one […]