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Funny-man and impressionist George Kirby, Nobel Prize Winner Ralph Bunche and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad featured this week on Tony Brown’s Journal on Soul of the South TV Network.  Tony Brown returns to education arena as consultant and spokesman for a soon-to-be-released 2019 video game-like English Grammar Learning System MON., OCT. 22 – TBJ #603 — George…

Open The Doorway To Higher Education and Better-paying Jobs Studies show that all grades across the board are indexed to English grammar proficiency, i. e., if you make good grades in English grammar and proficiency, you are more likely to make high grades in math, social science and other subjects as well.  Perhaps, it is even more…

MON., OCT. 1 – TBJ #631 — Mrs. Norman, We Love You: Garnet High School in Charleston, WV was Tony Brown’s high school. It was one of the most academically rigorous high schools in the nation and, as a result, in 1951, his freshman entrance exam to Wayne State University in Detroit was waived because…

Coming Up on Tony Brown’s Journal   MON., SEPT. 24 — TBJ #2903 — Slavery, Northern Lie? – Part 2: The second installation of a two-part series on the North’s hidden history as a slave region, addresses king cotton and the legal and illegal slave trade, among other historic events.  Journalist Jenifer Frank, co-author of…

Alex Haley, Eubie Blake, Frederick Douglass headline Tony Brown’s Journal on Soul of the South TV Network — Sept. 17 — Sept. 21 MON., SEPT. 17 – TBJ #201 — On The Stump With Alex Haley:  In many African societies the griot is the preserver of customs, achievements, philosophies and traditions of his people. An…

Upcoming Soul of the South TV Network: Friday, Sept. 7 — Friday, Sept. 14 featuring Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, Dr. Chancellor Williams, Benjamin Banneker and Arthur Ashe. FRI., SEPT. 7 – TBJ #807 — Thank God!: An Aframerican Docu-Opera — Part 4: Without The Black Church, Black America would not have had a prayer! There…

Music is the sacred messenger of this message. One of the early messages of my foray into humanity’s early background was Black culture at its origin. Succinctly, it was moved to the periphery of the human experience by a distortion of humanities true history and culture over the centuries. The Black Sacred Music of the…

The truth, also according to Tony Brown, is that “the lack of knowledge of  living is the cause of ignorance and ignorance is the cause of the death of the body,” permits  the search for truth to continue on an appropriate level in the spirit world. That’s why, without so-called death, there would be no…

At the close of the Civil War, the annual income of Black America was $20 million. By 1984, a little more than 100 years later, that figure had grown to $200 billion. But despite the steady growth of Black earning power, the Black family income is well below the national average and the Black community…

The Evolution of Sammy Davis, Jr.  (TBJ SHOW #1402):  It’s 1983 and Sammy Davis reflects on his television interview with me in 1971.   Sammy Davis responded, “I’ve survived where other cats would have been down the tubes. A lot of people don’t like themselves. I’ve stopped trying to adjust because its uncomfortable, let me be…