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Gen. Frank E. Petersen: “A Real Tough Guy”

December 30th, 2022 in

  “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…


Gen. Daniel “Chappie” James: First Black 4-Star AirForce General

December 17th, 2022 in

Don’t stand there banging on that door of opportunity, yelling, ‘Let me in, let me in.’ Instead, you stand there, armed with your bags of knowledge and your bags of understanding, and your bags of desire. And when they crack that door, step in and take charge!” Moving in tandem with American history, the bold…


Lionel Hampton A Grace Note

October 21st, 2022 in

Musician extraordinaire Lionel Hampton died on August 31, 2002 at the age of 94.  His legacy as a musician, statesman, humanitarian and close friend of the Bush family are chronicled on this program. Tony Brown also remembers this music legend’s love for the little guy.    HISTORICALLY, TONY BROWN IS also … Coordinator of the “Walk…


Character Is Power: An “Anabolic” Concept

August 31st, 2022 in

Tony Brown welcomes Ryan Gross of Hampton, VA, as the first member of the Best Foot Forward unified group of winners who have joined in a unified effort to save our country, in response to my appeal to be a part of a much-needed drive to get enough non-violent, peace-loving people to work together to…


The Art of Jon Onye Lockard and African Origins In History

July 22nd, 2022 in

DETROIT ORIGINS  Many members of the first-team African American fine-and-portrait artists who earned professional commissions from a wealthy White clientele came from Detroit and were friends and associates of mine at then Wayne (and later) Wayne State University. My Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brother, Carl Owens, who, perhaps, along with Artis Lane, who later migrated…


J. A. Rogers: “Africa’s Gift To America”

July 15th, 2022 in

J. A. Rogers is a very diligent and prolific author of some 10 books. Among them, Sex and Race in three volumes, World’s Great Men and Women of Color and Africa’s Gift To America. Rogers’ books will not let us rest, nor remain comfortable with man-made racial terms. Rogers admitted, however, that to determine who…


Has The Black Leadership Betrayed Its Own Community?

July 7th, 2022 in

Who should take responsibility for the condition of African-Americans?  Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, author of “Betrayal By Any Other Name,” accuses both yesterday’s and today’s Black leadership.  Dr. Al-Mansour says there is a historic pattern “to trace the extent to which our traditional leaders have participated in the process of the destruction of the Black masses.”…


The History of Black College Day

June 17th, 2022 in

“AN AMERICAN HISTORY LESSON AND THE ULTIMATE UNITY REALITY” Black College Day, founded by Tony Brown in 1980, brought the support of U. S. President Ronald Reagan and added subsequent growth to U. S. financial markets!                             For those who understand the visible/invisible world…


Lena Horne

June 10th, 2022 in

              A TRIBUTE TO ALL WOMEN EVERYWHERE! BLACK ROYALTY:  PART 3 LENA HORNE  An African-American Queen and An American Icon  Every comment sounded like, not only a tribute of honor to all self-respecting women, especially African-American women who have been selected for an especially large dose of injustice and…


Royalty: The Cure for Karma

May 26th, 2022 in

Diahann Carroll, the star of her own television series during a time when very few African Americans could get a job at a television network, survived breast cancer, but it caught up with her again in 2019 and ended her life on this side – at the age of 84. She was, like Lena Horne,…