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The History of Black Music – Pt. 1

March 15th, 2024 in

TonyBrownsJournal.com presents “The History of Black Music – Part 1” as a tribute to the outstanding faculties, staffs, and students at the 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). During this period of American cultural decline, African-American culture is getting a big boost from Black music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This reminds…


Dr. Wyatt T. Walker Explains “The Music Tree”

March 9th, 2024 in

TBJ SHOW #829 – PART II: “THE MUSIC TREE:”  Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., and university scholar, musically demonstrates with a 100-member choir how Black Americans wrote their true history in musical notes and explains how Black music made American music. The music of the Black religious experience is…


Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker & The Roots of Music

March 1st, 2024 in

The music of the Black religious experience is the primary root of all music born in the United States. The Revered Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, aide to MLK and university scholar, musically demonstrates with a 100-member choir, on Tony Brown’s Journal show #827 & 829 (The Roots of Music and The Music Tree), how Black…


The Evolution of Sammy Davis

February 23rd, 2024 in

It’s 1983 and Sammy Davis reflects on his television interview with me in 1971. Sammy Davis responded, “I’ve survived where other cats would have been down the tubes. A lot of people don’t like themselves. I’ve stopped trying to adjust because its uncomfortable, let me be the best me I can be.” Tony Brown offers…


Dr. Chancellor Williams: The Destruction of Black Civilization

February 15th, 2024 in

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, were easily toppled. Dr. Chancellor Williams, a widely-acclaimed historian, continues his discussion with Tony Brown as to why this occurred.   CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS, historian…


The Great Debate

February 1st, 2024 in

The great debate between Black psychiatrist Dr. Frances Welsing (who believes Whites are genetically inferior) and Nobel Prize winner Dr. William Shockley (who believes Blacks are genetically inferior). Back in the 1970s, a man named Dr. William Shockley embarked upon the mission of proving to the world that Black people were genetically inferior, without the…


Exclusive Interview with Confessed Killer of Malcolm X

December 29th, 2023 in

Circumstances surrounding the trial, the assassination itself, accounts in the Press and subsequent official actions were peculiar, and to this day, the question of who killed Malcolm is still with us. In 1981, in an intimate talk, I interviewed Talmadge Hayer from his prison cell. Hayer explained in 1981 what his and his co-conspirators’ motivations…


Malcolm and Elijah

December 15th, 2023 in

Decades before Hollywood discovered this Academy Award winner, his 1982 performance on Tony Brown’s Journal as Malcolm X (the physical resemblance is stunning) marked the striving-actor young Denzel Washington’s place in history. It was his first performance before a national audience, thanks to stage producer Woodie King, Jr.  The New York Off-Broadway play produced by…


Black Hollywood The Way It Was: Fading Out – Pt. 4

December 9th, 2023 in

The Black Valentino: Lorenzo Tucker … Lorenzo Tucker, a Race Movie superstar of the 30’s, was often billed as the “Black Valentino” or the “Colored John Gilbert.” In 1924, lured by the taste for show business, Tucker withdrew from his studies at Temple University where he had contemplated medicine, and moved to Atlantic City in…


Black Hollywood-The Way It Was: The Middle Years – Part 3

December 1st, 2023 in

Black Hollywood: Part 3 — The Middle Years:  Part 3 of this examination of the history of independently produced Black movies and the establishment of a Black film era, “The Middle Years,” picks up during the Depression years as independent filmmakers struggle for survival. The exclusion of Blacks from the motion picture industry and the…