By Brooklyn White-Grier, CNN (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 ...

A white man went on a venomous rant against a Black commuter calling her “monkey” and yelling other obscenities on a Long Island train. A woman on the Long Island RailRoad (LIRR) recorded the ...

One night in 1980 or so, the legendary songwriter Nile Rodgers went on a bad date. He was out at a club with a group of people, he says, including Eddie Murphy and Rick James. Rodgers was big-time ...