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Don Cornelius: Life In Pictures

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Chicago native Don Cornelius began his professional career as a journalist and DJ. He started hosting soul dance parties while working as a news reporter on Chicago’s WCIU TV station. He eventually approached station management about hosting a show with the same theme. The show would later become “Soul Train.”

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