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       'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius Commits Suicide
       By: Admire Date: February 1, 2012, 1:04 pm
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       'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius Commits Suicide by msnbc.com
       staff and wire
       Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV Dance show "Soul
       Train," is dead at 75 of a self-inflicted gun shot wound, Los
       Angeles police tell the Associated Press.
       Cornelius' death was discovered early Wednesday morning at his
       Sherman Oaks, California home.
       US Weekly reports that when Cornelius was in court in 2009 for
       divorce proceedings, he complained of significant health
       issues."
       TheGrio:  Why 'Soul Train' will never leave America's station
       "Soul Train" began in 1970 in Chicago and aired in syndication
       from 1971 to March 2006, featuring primarily African-American
       musicians.  It brought the best R & B, soul and later hip-hop
       acts to TV and had teenagers dance to them.  It was one of the
       first shows to showcase African-Americans prominently, although
       the dance group was racially mixed.  Cornelius was the first
       host and executive producer.
       Stars such as Ike and Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin,
       The Jackson 5, James Brown and Stevie Wonder appeared on the
       show.
       Watching the show became a weekly ritual in many households,
       especially African-American homes.  Author Earl Ofari Hutchinson
       wrote in The Grio that, "It was virtually a black household
       ritual to do one of two things when Saturday rolled around and
       it was Soul Train time.  One was to sway, swoon and sing to the
       lyrics belted out by the parade of R & B legends and top hit
       artists...The other ritual was to dance or more likely stumble
       around the living room, trying to do our best imitation of the
       latest dance steps displayed by the show's perpetual motion
       gyrating couples."
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       Re: 'Soul Train' Creator Don Cornelius Commits Suicide
       By: Admire Date: February 1, 2012, 9:04 pm
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