April 5, 2024

Who reached the North Pole first? Robert Peary or Matthew Alexander Henson?

There is much controversy surrounding who was the first person to reach the North Pole. Normative history books tell us that Admiral Robert Peary was the man who “discovered” the North Pole. Is that accurate? Or did Matthew Henson step foot first on the North Pole?

Matthew Alexander Henson was an African American explorer who accompanied Admiral Robert Peary and spent 23 years on expeditions together, including seven voyages to the Arctic.

This week on TonyBrownsJournal.com, I highlight an interview with my friend and the late Dr. Allen Counter, Harvard professor, Nobel Prize winner, professional explorer, and member of the Explorers Club of New York, who discusses Matthew Henson’s legacy and his efforts to bring Henson’s contributions to light.

Hyderabad's Basic Python Code

The popular host of the Charles Payne Show on the FOX Business channel gave the U.S. worldwide audience a taste of what the United Kingdom has placed on the path of the United States. I refer, of course, to the very predictable fact that in our New World Reality of outsourcing, this most advanced class in AI outsourcing will need a basic course in Hyderabad's Basic Python Code.

Like it or not, “Underpants Armageddon” has arrived in the United Kingdom in full force via the friendly NATO economy of the modern-day United Kingdom (U.K.). Succinctly, that is, perhaps, as the title explains, why the United States is adopting the role of the World's Credit Selector. And the Ogartis China has all ears pressed against the door.

In the meantime, both the U.S. and the UK might want to read “The British Are Coming for Your White-Collar Job,” by Chelsey Dulaney, which appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal on April 5, 2024.  Just ask Hollywood Superstar Margot Robbie of “Barbie” fame and, furthermore, remember that “Freedom Is Not Free.” But what does that have to do with you charming Americans who are basking in the Glorious Sunlight’s Glorious Past of Hollywood Movies?

In short, and despite the fact that “in the old models of outsourcing, you’d give the outsourcing company the boring work. But there’s the new breed of outsourcing that is cheaper but also often creative,” said Matt Buckland, who spent two decades as a tech recruiter in the U.K. for companies including Facebook. Buckland concluded, “You might still give your team in Hyderabad basic Python code. In the U.K., you might give them AI.”

“It is exponentially more expensive to hire in the U.S., said Danny Lopez, chief Executive of Cybersecurity software firm Glasswall. Nearly all of his software engineers are based in the U.K., even though 90% of the company’s revenue comes from the U.S. Having a cheaper U.K. cost base makes his business more competitive in the U.S. market, he said.

The U.S. economy, meanwhile, has boomed since the pandemic. As trade with the EU falters, British businesses see the U.S. as a chance to sell their services to a market several times larger than their own, often at higher fees. This strategy has brought in close to $90 billion from the U.K. in the year through last September, according to Deutsche Bank, helping to counterbalance money flowing out of the economy from running a large trade deficit in goods. U.K. management consultants, financial-services firms and insurers have boosted exports by billions of pounds compared with before the pandemic.

“The U.K.’s competitive edge is that it is fundamentally cheaper than the U.S. That’s a fact,” Jay Rosenwink, an executive at Warner Bros. in the U.K., said.

Foreign migrants with the force of an invading army who are now uninvited guests who illegally occupy American homes from New York To California are on their way to the Malibu’s of the USA should remember to brush up on the “Hyderabad Basic Python Code.” I recommend that all human sentients who occupy living space in the United States understand the fundamental requirements to pledge allegiance to the legally adopted Constitution of the United States of America.

God doesn't like ugly! Americans don't like ugly, either! Perhaps that is why Fox News announced recently that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was chosen in an opinion poll as the best-liked personality in the world!

FEATURED ON TonyBrownsJournal.com THIS WEEK

TBJ #2407 – “THE HENSON SAGA”:  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 Henson.  The person who championed the long-ignored accomplishments of Henson is Harvard professor Dr. Allen Counter, a professional explorer and member of the Explorers Club of New York.  Dr. Counter discusses Matthew Henson’s legacy and his efforts to bring Henson’s contributions to light.

TBJ #2408 – “MATTHEW HENSON: THE FINAL STEP” Dr. Allen Counter, Harvard professor and explorer, has discovered the Eskimo descendants of North Pole discoverers Matthew Henson and Robert E. Peary.    Dr. Counter talks about Black Igloo, his recent work tracing the Afro-Eskimo descendants of Matthew Henson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

HISTORICALLY, TONY BROWN IS also …

  • Coordinator of the “Walk To Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr.” in Detroit (1963), according to the July 29, 1963 edition of Business Week magazine, “the largest civil rights march in history.”
  • WINNER of the prestigious Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
  • Dean Emeritus and Professor, Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, Hampton University 
  • First and Founding Dean and Professor, School of Communications, Howard University
  • Founder, BLACK COLLEGE DAY, 1980
  • 2015-2016 National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame Inductee
  • Black Emmy Nominee – 1989 Special Recognition Award Winner 
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Honorary Degree – American University, Paris, France 
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 
  • Talker’s, Radio Trade Magazine: Selected as “One Of The 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts In America” 
  • “Tony Brown Chicago,” WLS-AM Radio (Chicago) 
  • “Tony Brown,” WLIB-AM Radio (New York) “Tony Brown at Daybreak,” WRC-TV (Washington, DC) 
  • “Tony Brown’s Journal”/“Black Journal” (TV series: 1968-2008): “The Most Complete and Thoughtful Record of African-American Opinion.” 
  • U. S. Army 272 field artillery (s-1 Intelligence) battalion and cadre (1953-1955). Neu-Ülm, GERMANY. Honorable discharge.

BLACK HISTORY

HAS THE BLACK LEADERSHIP BETRAYED ITS OWN COMMUNITY?

WE STOOD WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

“I was there 50 years ago, in 1963, one of the last two Directors left standing, where 500,000 marchers once stood.”  --Tony Brown

“LARGEST CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH IN HISTORY”

The following week, in its July 29, 1963 edition, Business Week magazine called the Detroit event the “largest civil rights march in history.” Subsequently, an official police source, in an affidavit, confirmed an attendance of “no fewer than 250,000 and as many as 500,000 people.”  Black people came mostly from throughout the nearby Midwest region.

More official confirmation has been forthcoming since then. Nearly 40 years later, in 2003, The Wall Street Journal would report on page one that the famed King Dream Speech may have had its roots -- not at the March on Washington (which drew 250,000), on August 28, 1963, but elsewhere, perhaps 66 days before in Detroit, Michigan where the attendance may have reached, according to an official police affidavit, 500,000 people.

Although I had no official role in the Washington March, I did witness it as a Detroit correspondent for the national Pittsburgh Courier newspaper chain of African-American local publications throughout the United States, an affiliate of the Black Press, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial within a few feet of Dr. King and I was included in Life magazine’s limited photo coverage of this historic event.

All of this in only 66 days! My head was spinning with excitement and wonderment. It seemed that my Detroit decision to choose activism as a way of life had become my destiny.

2013 – 50th Anniversary “Walk to Freedom March” – Detroit, MI

Tony Brown (center) Grand Marshal of the 2nd and final Detroit March on June 22, 2013, drew 200,000, with his grandson Remy Harris (left) and Jesse Jackson (right).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TONY BROWN OFFERS EDUCATORS, STUDENTS, HOMESCHOOLERS AND PARENTS ACCESS TO A NEW VISUAL STREAMING LEARNING TOOL FOR BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE 

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Free streamed copy of “THE WHITE GIRL" movie with each annual subscription is a streamed copy of “The White Girl,” a full-length anti-drug feature movie directed by Tony Brown that was released via commercial syndication in movie theaters in 1995 with a PG-13 rating. The opening inaugural debut of “The White Girl” at the Liberty Theatre in Hamilton, Bermuda (Bahamas) broke the house box-office gross record, according to Hollywood Reporter, a trade magazine.

BLACK COLLEGE DAY BILL- White House cabinet members and advocates of equal education look on as President Reagan signs Executive Order 12320, just one year after the first historic Black College Day rally in Washington, DC, that increased the amount of federal funds to these institutions by $9.6 million. From left to right are: Education Secretary Terrell Bell, Tony Brown, Founder and Chief Coordinator of Black College Day, Thelma Duggan, Coordinator of Minority Affairs at the Department of Transportation; and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LEADERS OF THE BLACK COLLEGE DAY MARCH IN 1980; THE ULTIMATE UNITY RALLY. Supporters of Black colleges from around the country demonstrated to save Black colleges from new federal and state desegregation plans that threatened their historic role. This 1983 Black College Day massive march and rally in Savannah, Georgia, protested the merger plans of two Black colleges in Georgia.