Category: Historical Figures

Sort: Date | Title | Views | Random
View:

Gen. Daniel “Chappie” James

2.30K Views

Moving in tandem with American history, the bold and brave first Black four-star general of the U. S. Air Force, Daniel “Chappie” James, in a rare historic television appearance on Tony Brown’s Journal, offered to hi...

Gold Is Also Black: The Story of a Black Quarterback

9.61K Views

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...

Who Was Medgar Evers?

3.45K Views

As of 1984 when this documentary was made, no one had been convicted in the 1963 assassination of Mississippi NAACP Field Director Medgar Evers. This legendary leader’s voter registration and economic boycott drives p...

Africa’s Gift to America

1.30K Views

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 ...

Richard Pryor: Rap II

3.99K Views

(718)

The Henson Saga

3.38K Views

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 ...

Great Men of Color

3.08K Views

Dr. John Henrik Clark discusses J. A. Rogers’ book “Great Black Men of Color” and other important and historical works by Rogers. Rogers spent the majority of his lifetime pioneering the field of Black Studies with hi...

Jeffersons Black & White DNA

2.04K Views

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...

Stars on Hollywood

2.99K Views

Sammy Davis, Jr. and Ben Vereen explain being Black in a hostile industry. (623)