“Seldom are they recognized outside their own community for their superior accomplishments, and this is our way of giving them the honors they deserve,” she said. The NAACP Image Awards honor minorities who strive for positive change through their craft, according to spokesperson Regina Jones. Moore was recognized for his role on the soap opera “The Young & The Restless” with the outstanding actor in a daytime drama series award. “Soul Train” host Shemar Moore was also honored, but not for his work on the long running syndicated music series. Cool J, Aaron Neville, Stevie Wonder, and the late Grover Washington Jr. Kelly walked away with a pair of awards - outstanding male artist and outstanding music video for “I Wish.” Other Image Awards music winners were Carl Thomas, Destiny’s Child, L.L. She is also a new mother, and will release a live album, “The Experience,” May 20 via Elektra. It’s been a busy time for the artist, who on Wednesday also won best R&B/soul single, female, at the Soul Train Awards. The show also will include highlights of first-phase honors.Īdams also took the Image honors for outstanding female artist, outstanding gospel artist – contemporary, and outstanding performance in a variety series/special for her appearance on the last “Soul Train Lady Of Soul Awards” broadcast. ![]() The second phase, honoring those involved in film and nighttime television, will take place Saturday (March 3) and will be broadcast March 9 on Fox television. ![]() One way or another, the "Train" rolls on.Gospel singer Yolanda Adams took home four awards last night (March 1), including outstanding song for “Open My Heart,” during the first phase of the 32nd annual Image Awards, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).ĭozens of black entertainers, writers, musicians and others were honored in the first phase, held at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Still, the reruns are aired worldwide, the Soul Train Awards for black pop excellence are still handed out and the brand name continues to draw attention, thanks to Magic Johnson and other members of an investment group that now owns it. Soul Train's last original episode was taped in 2006 and Cornelius, who stepped down as host years earlier, died in 2012 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 75. The hip-hoppers show no such antipathy towards Cornelius' legacy Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, drummer and leader of The Roots, cutting-edge house band for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, submits a rapturous interview about growing up with Soul Train and taking its rhythmic inspirations to heart. And he wasn't always far-sighted either, as George relates how he, along with other "black music gatekeepers of his generation," either missed or dismissed the "hip-hop" wave that began building in the late 1980s. The book also gives dimension to Cornelius' personality he could be as moody as he was magnanimous. In the process, he also provided black artists and black-owned businesses with the kind of national exposure they likely wouldn't have received without Cornelius' far-sighted franchise. George gives Cornelius all the credit he deserves for recognizing, and then seizing, the opportunity for presenting a regularly scheduled showcase for African-American musical and terpsichorean talent. ![]() Occupying the center of this account, as he did on the show for decades, is Don Cornelius, the dapper, baritone-voiced impresario, producer and founder of Soul Train. But, like it or not, many young people, not all of them black, took their dress-for-success cues from mile-high Afros, platform shoes, bell-bottoms and ruffled shirts worn by Soul Train's legendary cadre of dancers. I can actually hear many of you giggling at that last one. Soul Train, which ascended from humble beginnings as a local after-school program in Chicago to a phenomenon of national, if not global proportions, was in retrospect the cornerstone of this transformative era, setting the decade's agenda for music, dance and fashion. ![]() Its nationwide premiere in 1971 was perhaps the most auspicious signpost of a decade in which African-American culture, freed during the previous decade from the social and legal constraints of racial segregation, leapt to the forefront of mainstream pop as never before…and, some might argue, never since. The "trip" chronicled in those pages by journalist-filmmaker Nelson George is the 1,117-episode run of Soul Train, the syndicated TV dance-and-music series. In a publishing marketplace where 700 pages of text are not enough to encompass a movie star's life or a presidential administration, The Hippest Trip in America manages, semi-miraculously, to compress more than 30 years of rapier-keen social history and street-savvy cultural criticism within 230-odd pages.
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