VIDEO/DVD: 'Soul Train' Rode the Express for Black Culture

DVD release pulls pop icon back into station. On Wednesday, when the Grammy Museum hosts a 40th anniversary tribute to "Soul Train," Don Cornelius and Smokey Robinson will be on hand just as they were during the show's heyday. When the "Soul Train" arrived in the early '70s, MTV and BET were a decade away, Michael Jackson was still in the Jackson 5 and hip-hop was in its nascent stage. As a showcase for black culture in all of its unadulterated glory, there was nothing quite like it...

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