African-American women in military service also did not receive proper recognition for their service. Reflecting that apartheid custom, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only African-American WAC unit to serve overseas in WWII. This unit was responsible for redirecting the mail to the GIs on the battlefield, a Sisyphean feat, considering that troops…
TBJ #631 – “Mrs. Norman, We Love You”: Garnet High School in Charleston, West Virginia was Tony Brown’s high school. It was one of the most academically rigorous high schools in the nation and, as a result, in 1951, his freshman entrance exam to Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan was waived essentially because of…
In 2007, Dr. Carol M. Swain, a professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University and author of “Debating Immigration,” sat down and explored with me the nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship affecting the U. S. (TBJ #3017 — Blacks Divided) Debating Immigration presents 18 original essays, written by some of the world’s…
Dr. Khalid Abduallah Tariq Al-Mansour is an international attorney and businessman. His college education was obtained at Howard University, where he majored in Philosophy and Logic, and the University of California School of Law at Berkeley, where he received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree. Dr. Al-Mansour is also a Phi Beta Kappa scholarship recipient. THIS…
ON April 11, 2023, I WILL CELEBRATE the 90th anniversary of my miracle. I am, perhaps, exceptional, both by mundane standards of variable physical health and esoteric knowledge of what’s going on behind the current cosmic energy scene and the deeper human behavior studies of our collective psyche. I have known since my birth, at…
Why were Africans, the first builders of civilization in the cradle of world civilization and the discoverers of mathematics, writing, sciences, engineering, medicine, religion, fine arts, and the builders of the great pyramids, so easily toppled? Dr. Chancellor Williams, the widely-acclaimed historian, continues his discussion with Tony Brown as to why this occurred. The Destruction…
Tony Brown’s Journal program #2702 is my essay on Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s a story of reality, truth, vision, courage and transformation on the one hand and racism, betrayal and conspiracy on the other. Ultimately, it explains the transition of a great man to a better place. I will also share with you in…
Don’t stand there banging on that door of opportunity, yelling, ‘Let me in, let me in.’ Instead, you stand there, armed with your bags of knowledge and your bags of understanding, and your bags of desire. And when they crack that door, step in and take charge!” Moving in tandem with American history, the bold…
Tony Brown welcomes Ryan Gross of Hampton, VA, as the first member of the Best Foot Forward unified group of winners who have joined in a unified effort to save our country, in response to my appeal to be a part of a much-needed drive to get enough non-violent, peace-loving people to work together to…
DETROIT ORIGINS Many members of the first-team African American fine-and-portrait artists who earned professional commissions from a wealthy White clientele came from Detroit and were friends and associates of mine at then Wayne (and later) Wayne State University. My Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brother, Carl Owens, who, perhaps, along with Artis Lane, who later migrated…
