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Legends of Music

March 24th, 2023 in

TBJ #2122 – “LEGENDS OF MUSIC” This edition features the thoughts and music of some of the world’s most talented legendary entertainers, including Eubie Blake, Chuck Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Hampton and Charles Brown.   HISTORICALLY, TONY BROWN IS also … Coordinator of the “Walk To Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr.” in Detroit (1963), according to the…


Legends of Sports

March 16th, 2023 in

TBJ #2205 – “LEGENDS OF SPORTS” Arthur Ashe, Wilma Rudolph, Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, and John Thompson are all legends in the sports world.  These renowned athletes are among the personalities profiled in this edition for their “winning spirit.”


Jazz Legend: Dr. Donald Byrd

March 9th, 2023 in

  “JAZZ LEGEND: DONALD BYRD” Guest Donald Byrd shares his jazz career with Tony Brown and a live studio audience. As a sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while remaining a jazz artist. As…


Legends of Comedy

March 3rd, 2023 in

          TBJ #2206 – “LEGENDS OF COMEDY” This program features a tribute to comedy with a litany of entertainer giants such as Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, George Kirby, Nipsey Russell and Moms Mabley.


Benjamin Banneker: Truth-To-Power

February 24th, 2023 in

Imagine being Black in the 1700s and becoming a self-taught surveyor who played a pivotal role in planning the layout of our nation’s capital. In 1753, at the age of 22, Banneker constructed a striking wooden clock without having ever seen a clock before (although he had examined a pocket watch). He painstakingly carved the…


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

February 17th, 2023 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…


Africa’s Downfall

February 3rd, 2023 in

Why were 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, so easily toppled? Dr. Chancellor Williams, the widely-acclaimed historian, continues his discussion with Tony Brown as to why this occurred. The Destruction…


The History of Black Music – Pt. 2

January 26th, 2023 in

TonyBrownsJournal.com presents “The History of Black Music – Part 2” 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…


Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 13th, 2023 in

Tony Brown’s Journal program #2702 is my essay on Martin Luther King, Jr.  It’s a story of reality, truth, vision, courage and transformation on the one hand and racism, betrayal and conspiracy on the other. Ultimately, it explains the transition of a great man to a better place. I will also share with you in…


Dr. Chancellor Williams: The Destruction of Black Civilization

January 6th, 2023 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…