(CNN) — You’ve seen the early episodes. Teeth gleaming, hips grooving, and oil-misted ‘fros bouncing to the beat. This was “Soul Train,” the music television series that served as Blackness’ ...

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"Back in the kitchen of my family's Brooklyn housing project, I'd sit alongside my little sister, eat a bowl of Cap'n Crunch cereal, and watch 'Soul Train'." So writes Nelson George early on in The ...

What could be better suited to a large, shiny, coffee-table book than Soul Train? Everything about the old TV show feels tailor-made for the coffee-table format: gleaming grooves, stunning dance moves ...