Tony Brown: Truth Teller Extraordinaire

Music News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jun 28, 2026 · 1m

Tony Brown, the legendary journalist and PBS pioneer who died at 93, didn’t just report news—he reshaped it. Through “Tony Brown’s Journal,” the longest-running national public affairs show on PBS, he gave voice to Black experiences ignored by mainstream media, tackling historic injustices like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and the Tulsa Race Riot. A civil rights activist who marched with Dr. King in ’63, he also founded Howard’s journalism school, mentoring generations of reporters. Guided by his motto “No Black Lies. No White Lies. Only the Truth,” Brown championed economic justice…