The Tuskegee Airmen — “America’s Black Air Force” in WWII The pilots of America’s WWII armed forces were highly skilled flyers who became the stars of war stories and the ingredients of legends. These Black pilots were and are the first line of defense, the protectors of our fleets and the rulers of the skies…
“JAZZ LEGEND: DONALD BYRD” Guest Donald Byrd shares his jazz career with Tony Brown and a live studio audience. As a sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while remaining a jazz artist. As…
“The hunt for ancestral talent or character that might explain the birth of a genius is usually futile. In the case of Benjamin Banneker, however, it has intriguing aspects that refuse to be ignored,” writes Charles A. Cerami in “Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot.” Banneker’s maternal grandmother, Molly Welsh, was originally identified as a…
Doug Williams was the first Black quarterback to win a Super Bowl, but before Doug Williams there was Sandy Stephens. Stephens, a second-round pick in the 1962 draft had the opportunity to play in the NFL – just not as a quarterback. “Sandy Stephens was a pioneer,” Tony Dungy said. “Sandy quarterbacked at a time…
This 1989 program features National Football League (NFL) Hall of Famer football player Jim Brown. It has been said by many sports observers that Jim Brown is one of the greatest football players that have ever lived. However, depending on your location around the country, being the greatest football player is highly debatable. This program…
California educator Millie McGhee, author of “Secrets Uncovered: J. Edgar Hoover, Passing for White,” talks about her research into her family genealogy and her revelation that Hoover was her grandfather’s second cousin. If these allegations are true, was J. Edgar Hoover, according to American Common Law, an African American? By American cultural standards and practices,…
Who should take responsibility for the condition of African-Americans? Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, author of “Betrayal By Any Other Name,” accuses both yesterday’s and today’s Black leadership. Dr. Al-Mansour says there is a historic pattern “to trace the extent to which our traditional leaders have participated in the process of the destruction of the Black masses.”…
“HOLY OR HISTORY: HOW DO YOU READ THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE?” (TBJ show #2418) Gary Greenberg, president of the Biblical Archaeology Society of New York, has written two powerful books that examine the foundations of Judaism and Christianity. Mr. Greenberg discusses the influence of Egyptian history on the Christian Bible. Greenberg is also the author of…
During the 1978 season of Tony Brown’s Journal, host Tony Brown told you about “His-Story.” Tony Brown’s Journal program, “His-Story: Black History’s Little-Known Facts,” is a continuing discussion of little-known facts about the history made by Blacks, with Dr. Lerone Bennett, Jr., famed historian, scholar and author of “Before the Mayflower” and “What Manner of…
J. A. Rogers is a very diligent and prolific author of some 10 books. Among them, Sex and Race in three volumes, World’s Great Men and Women of Color and Africa’s Gift To America. Rogers’ books will not let us rest, nor remain comfortable with man-made racial terms. Rogers admitted, however, that to determine who…
