The music of the Black religious experience is the primary root of all music born in the United States. The Revered Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, aide to MLK and university scholar, musically demonstrates with a 100-member choir, on Tony Brown’s Journal show #827 & 829 (The Roots of Music and The Music Tree), how Black…
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…
TonyBrownsJournal.com presents “The History of Black Music” as a tribute to the outstanding faculties, staff, and students at the 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). During this period of American cultural decline, African-American culture is getting a big boost from Black music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This reminds me of back…
“ORIGINS”: In part one of this two-part interview, Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, the author of “The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered,” discusses the origins and achievements of the Black African Diaspora. Dr. Al-Mansour traces what he calls an “illustrious history” that has been buried throughout the ages. Dr. Khalid Abduallah Tariq Al-Mansour is an international attorney…
“The White Girl” follows the story of a woman named Kim, played by Troy Beyer, who was raised by socially ambitious parents. Despite being Black, her parents do not associate with or acknowledge other Black people. As a result, they raise Kim to identify as a White girl. Kim’s lack of racial identity causes her…
TBJ #111 – Has America Had Five Black Presidents? An investigation of five U. S. presidents who were alleged to have Black ancestry is presented in J. A. Rogers’ book “The Five Negro Presidents.” Rogers’ book was intended to denounce categorizing different ethnicities and combine them into the human race. J. A. Rogers subsequently revealed…
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…
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,…
KAREN SMITH, BEGIN TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY THE ALL! “THOMAS JEFFERSON’S BLACK AND WHITE DNA” This edition of Tony Brown’s Journal features author Byron Woodson, Sr., discussing his findings in his book, A President In The Family, with host Tony Brown. The book is the most comprehensive account thus far that…
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…
