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…
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…
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 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…
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.”…
“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…
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…
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,…
A recent picture of a still glamorous, youthful appearance of the “Band of Gold” symbol of African-American beauty aka Lena Horne (“Stormy Weather”), my biggest fan and dear friend, and Diane Carroll, a close friend of mine and heiress to Lena Horne’s crown as the first African-American beauty queen of television and movies. As you…
In 2001 a Washington Post headline reported, “Miss Evers’ Misses The Mark On Tuskegee Tragedy.” In my opinion, that statement of admonishment for the 2001 HBO film about the story of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment is an understatement. The Washington Post initially stated, “The experiment turned out to be a heinous government experiment in which…
