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Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010

by PopMatters Staff

by Stanley Crouch

The Daily Beast (4 February 2010)

“A new VH-1 documentary celebrates the landmark television show, but as Stanley Crouch writes, the real power of looking back at Soul Train is seeing what black culture has lost.”

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