Uptown at the Apollo
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Richard Pryor, Sammy Davis, Jr., Stevie Wonder and Sam Moore are among the artists who have had their names in lights outside of the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem. They appear with Tony Brown when he turns the pa...
Is Race No Longer Important?
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Educator Annie S. Barnes, author of Everyday Racism: A Book for All Americans, charges that racism is still a pernicious and destructive part of everyday life in Black America. Through personal accounts of daily for...
Lionel Hampton: Gladys Houses
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TonyBrownsJournal.com presents musician extraordinaire Lionel Hampton the businessman who established two record labels and his own publishing company, founded the Lionel Hampton Development Corporation and built lo...
That Under 40 Bunch
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In this 1980 episode of Tony Brown's Journal, Brown discusses the under-40 Black generation with a range of people from the Black community. 216
Thank God: An Aframerican Docu-Opera — Part 3
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"The music of the black religious experience," contends Tony Brown, host of the televised "Journal" that bears his name, "is the primary root of all music born in the United States." (806)
When The Sisters Came Marching Home
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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 GI's on the battlefield, a Sisyphean feat, cons...
AIDS Counterpoint
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On a previous Tony Brown's Journal program, Dr. Nathaniel Lehrman and Mr. John Lauritsen discussed a link between AIDS and drug usage, especially crack cocaine, and both condemned the usage of toxic chemicals, such a...
