Red Tails and Black Aces: As a result of the “Tuskegee Experiment” being a proven success and used as a basis to demonstrate that Blacks could perform with excellence and in air combat and leadership roles, President Harry Truman, in 1948, signed the executive order to integrate the entire military. The mere decision to go…
The Tuskegee Airmen — Part 3 – Jim Crow’s Graveyard. Shooting down German airplanes, rather than effectively carrying out the assigned duties of close ground support and bomber escort, emerged as the criterion for the judgment of combat performance for the 99th. Ironically, at the height of the controversy stateside, the 99th received a reassignment…
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…
“A REAL TOUGH GUY” GEN. FRANK E. PETERSEN: Tony Brown sits down and talks one-on-one with the US Marines’ 1st Black general – General Frank E. Petersen. In a 2016 ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, DDG 121, will be named…
Musician extraordinaire Lionel Hampton died on August 31, 2002 at the age of 94. His legacy as a musician, statesman, humanitarian and close friend of the Bush family are chronicled on this program. Tony Brown also remembers this music legend’s love for the little guy. HISTORICALLY, TONY BROWN IS also … Coordinator of the “Walk…
