A Chicago museum will play host Wednesday to a public memorial honoring legendary "Soul Train" creator and host Don Cornelius.
As Time Out Chicago reports, the Museum of Broadcast Communications will hold a tribute to Cornelius from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. The event, at the museum's new 360 N. State St. base, will also be broadcast live on Wvon-am (1690). Doors to the memorial will open at 5:15 p.m.
According to Time Out, the memorial will boast a high-profile lineup of individuals mourning Corenlius' death:
Speakers at the service are expected to include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, soul singer and Cook County Commissioner Jerry The Iceman Butler, Radio Hall of Famer Herb Kent, radio executives Marv Dyson and Melody Spann Cooper, producer Don Jackson, and colleagues Richard Steele and Jeanne Sparrow, among others.
Cornelius, 75, died in his Los Angeles home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last week. As the Chicago Sun-Times reports,...
As Time Out Chicago reports, the Museum of Broadcast Communications will hold a tribute to Cornelius from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. The event, at the museum's new 360 N. State St. base, will also be broadcast live on Wvon-am (1690). Doors to the memorial will open at 5:15 p.m.
According to Time Out, the memorial will boast a high-profile lineup of individuals mourning Corenlius' death:
Speakers at the service are expected to include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, soul singer and Cook County Commissioner Jerry The Iceman Butler, Radio Hall of Famer Herb Kent, radio executives Marv Dyson and Melody Spann Cooper, producer Don Jackson, and colleagues Richard Steele and Jeanne Sparrow, among others.
Cornelius, 75, died in his Los Angeles home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last week. As the Chicago Sun-Times reports,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Joseph Erbentraut
- Huffington Post
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