TBJ #1409 – WHERE WAS ROCK-N-ROLL 35 YEARS AGO? Many people and many styles of music influenced Rock and Roll. The styles included Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Bluegrass, Boogie-Woogie, and Rockabilly. Each was a major factor into the introduction of a new style of music called Rock ‘N’ Roll. Tony Brown, and his guest, Charles Brown,…
Henry Highland Garnett was born a slave in Newmarket, Maryland in 1815. He was a pure-blooded African of the Mandingo tribe of fierce warriors in Sudan, Africa. At the age of 10, along with his parents, he escaped from slavery and settled in New York City. He was educated at Canaan Academy in New Hampshire,…
IF YOU ARE POOR LIKE I USED TO BE, BLACK LIKE I WILL ALWAYS BE AND YOU ARE NOT AMONG THE RICH PEOPLE WHO BUY COLLEGE DEGREES FOR THEIR CHILDREN – THIS IS A FORMULA THAT CAN HELP YOUR CHILD HONESTLY EARN STRAIGHT “A” GRADES. (Stay tuned next week for Part II) This formula seems…
Black West Heroes The image of the men and women who shaped the West has usually been painted with White faces. They were the settlers who struggled against tremendous odds, the notorious outlaws, and the rugged, free-spirited cowboys. Over the years, the White cowboy has emerged as America’s macho hero. He is symbolic of the…
GIVE YOURSELF BLACK HISTORY – EVERY MONTH, 12 MONTHS A YEAR – 24/7 IT’S BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT TonyBrownsJournal.com WED., FEB. 27 – TBJ #2614 – “God Is Ahead By 13 Percent:” In 2003, sales for gospel music had grown by 13 percent while they dropped by 24 percent for the Hip Hop genre and…
Described by knowledgeable observers as “the leading Negro citizen of his time,” James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was indeed one of the most remarkable. His accomplishments could, and indeed did fill books, his autobiography, “Along This Way,” being one of them. He also was a well-known political figure, serving as U.S. Consul to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela…
How America Avoids the subject that I tackle in “The White Girl.” I focused on this subject largely because American movies and the general public scrupulously avoids the subject. Faithfully, however, the natural laws of the cosmic multiverses, seemingly are linked to a karmic stream of consciousness in the awareness universe. In fact, it does not…
Why wait until February? Start Black History Month now with a subscription to TonyBrownsJournal.com and view a streamed copy of “The White Girl,” a 1990 Tony Brown feature movie starring Troy Beyer and Taimak about the value of loving yourself (“I AM THAT I AM”) on TonyBrownsJournal.com The 2-Step Formula For Universal Unity (1) Learn…
