Category: Historical Figures
The Henson Saga
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Arctic explorer Matthew Henson’s contribution as the co-discoverer of the North Pole is gaining more national recognition. Recently, the National Geographic Society presented its coveted Hubbard Medal posthumously to ...
Character Is Power: An “Anabolic” Concept
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Booker T. Washington, in many ways, embodies the spirit of all of Black higher education. He was an educator and statesman, and he is Hampton University's most famous graduate and founder of Tuskegee Institute in 188...
Frederick Douglass: Orator, Statesman, Abolitionist
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Frederick Douglass, the renowned orator, statesman, and abolitionist and a prominent leader in a colony of England, now known as the United States of America, moved our new nation, led by so-called “white” people who...
Africa’s Gift to America
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Tony Brown's Journal Clarifies the Impact of J. A. Rogers 🌍 This “Iconic, seminal Historian For All People” …. Joel Augustus Rogers (J. A. Rogers) was one of the earliest popularizers of African and African-American ...
Did History Miss Emmett Till?
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Author Clenora Hudson-Weems examines the gruesome 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. She also challenges the widespread belief that Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus preci...
The Clarence Thomas Affair
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A year after Anita Hill's congressional committee testimony in which she accused then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unethical sexual behavior, differences of opinion concerning the televised hearings contin...
Jeffersons Black & White DNA
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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 tha...
Gold Is Also Black: The Story of a Black Quarterback
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Sandy Stephens was the first Black man to play quarterback for the storied University of Minnesota football team. In many ways, he was a forerunner of the athletic quarterbacks in the NFL today, scrambling to extend p...
