Category: Historical Figures
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 ...
Lionel Hampton: Living History
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Lionel Hampton was born on April 20, 1908, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was an American jazz musician and bandleader known for the rhythmic vitality of his playing and his showmanship as a performer. Best known for ...
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...
Oscar and Jackie, Two of the Same
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Patrick McGilligan is the author of Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only, The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker offers a vivid and fascinating portrait of this little-known pioneer.  (3019)
Walk To Freedom
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June 23, 1963, in Detroit’s Cobo Hall, I intensely listened to Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, for what many historians claim was the first time. Dr. King was in Detroit for the “...
The Tuskegee Airmen – Pt. 3: Jim Crow’s Graveyard
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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 ...
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...
Stars on Hollywood
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Sammy Davis, Jr. and Ben Vereen explain being Black in a hostile industry. (623)
Tuskegee Airmen — Clipped Wings – Pt. 1
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The pilots of America’s WWII armed forces were highly skilled flyers who became the stars of war stories and the ingredients of legends.  These pilots were and are the first line of defense, the protectors of our fl...
Who Was Medgar Evers?
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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...
