OAKLAND (BCN) -- Bay Area residents can take a step back in time Friday evening to celebrate Soul Beat Day in Oakland at an event honoring Soul Beat, the nation's first Black-owned cable TV network.

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland's Soul Beat, the first Black-owned television network, is once again having its annual summer party this Saturday. For a quarter-century (1978-2003), Soul Beat was Oakland’s ...

OAKLAND — Charles “Chuck” Edward Johnson, founder of Soul Beat Television, was remembered during an emotional memorial service in East Oakland on Mon-day as a visionary who cared about common folk.

If you lived in Oakland in the ’80s and ’90s, chances are you turned on your television and witnessed history in the making—even if it was 3am and you’d just switched the channel to a call-in show ...

Hip-hop’s takeover of R&B over the past decade altered its sound as soul artists aggressively pulled away from the genre’s conventional boundaries and embraced rap. Given the boys’ club culture of rap ...

Join us for an unforgettable celebration of soul, featuring the sensational UK songstress and powerhouse vocalist, **Natasha Watts**! With over a decade of sparkling success on the UK soul scene, ...