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This video from Tony Brown's Journal continues the look at the all-Black unit, the 99th. Shooting down German airplanes, rather than effectively carrying out the assigned duties of close ground support and bomber escort, emerged as the criterion for combat performance for the 99th. Ironically, at the height of the controversy stateside, the 99th received a reassignment of duties. The subsequent result: Jim Crow's Graveyard. Because of the reassignment,...

Criticism of the 99th's overseas combat record was instantaneous and virulent. After only a few months in combat, the Commander of the 12th Air Support Command assailed the performance of the Black pilots. "Officers of all professions” he said, felt that "the Negro type has not the proper reflexes to make a first-class fighter pilot.” Time magazine questioned the 99th's performance and asked: "Experiment Proved?" After a stateside controversy...

On March 25, 2002, a Black man and a Black woman won Oscars at the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively. As significant as the event was, there remains the nagging fear among some Blacks that fundamental change still had not arrived. In this program from Tony Brown's Journal, veteran actor Bernie Casey gives the inside details on what’s happening to Blacks in Hollywood and what he sees in the future for them.

In this program from Tony Brown's Journal, educators Dana Brooks and Ron Althouse, editors of Racism in College Sports, provide a scholarly approach to the issue of racism in college athletics.

In this program from Tony Brown's Journal, Tony Brown interviews Broadway and film actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, whose credits include Dreamgirls.

In this program from Tony Brown's Journal from the 1980s, Sammy Davis reflects on his television interview with Tony Brown in 1971. Davis says, "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 the best me I can be."

This program from Tony Brown's Journal discusses the role of the Black male lead on White-controlled television?

In this program from Tony Brown's Journal, Dr. Chancellor Williams, widely-acclaimed historian and scholar who labored for 35 years researching and writing his seminal work, The Destruction of Black Civilization, explains his soundly researched theory as to why Africans, the first builders of civilization in the cradle of world civilization and the discoverers of mathematics, writing, sciences, engineering, medicine, religion, and fine arts, were...

African Americans have historically been on the fringes of society, but they have wrought major changes in this country. This program from Tony Brown's Journal examines two phenomena that have shaped the course of American history: one rooted in the precepts of liberty, freedom and justice and the other that embraced the universality of the black experience.

This program from Tony Brown's Journal features a discussion with Dr. Fred MacDonald and Hal Williams about whether or not the Black male lead is too strong for White-controlled television.