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…
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…
During the 1978 season of Tony Brown’s Journal, host Tony Brown told you about “His-Story.” Tony Brown’s Journal program, “His-Story: Black History’s Little-Known Facts,” is a continuing discussion of little-known facts about the history made by Blacks, with Dr. Lerone Bennett, Jr., famed historian, scholar and author of “Before the Mayflower” and “What Manner of…
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…
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…
In 2002, I interviewed Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach (CLICK to view TBJ Show #2519 — THE EVOLUTION OF BLACK STUDIES) and he and I discussed the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa that he founded. Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday, nor is it meant to replace Christmas. At…
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. Then and Now: My 1981 Conversation with Talmadge Hayer. Concise. Personal. Malcolm X was killed on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom 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…
African-American women in military service also did not receive proper recognition for their service. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only African-American WAC unit to serve overseas in WWII. This unit was responsible for redirecting the mail to the GIs on the battlefield, a Sisyphean feat, considering that troops were constantly on the…
“A REAL TOUGH GUY” GEN. FRANK E. PETERSEN: Tony Brown sits down and talks one-on-one with the US Marines’ 1st Black general – General Frank E. Petersen. In a 2016 ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, DDG 121, will be named…
