Yamma Brown's guest appearances

Yamma Brown

Primary Sources, Black History

Perspectives with Condace Pressley

Michael Eric Dyson

Jack Carr

Maria Shriver

Russell Simmons

Frederick Douglass

Karin Slaughter

Rashad Jennings

Willy T. Ribbs

Ben Johnson

Ian Smith

Carlos Whittaker

Troy Davis

Anna Cabeca

Chris Gardner

Dred Scott

OwlTail

As the month of March and the observance of Women's History Month draws to a close, we sit down with Dr. Yamma Brown, the youngest daughter born to James Brown, the late Godfather of Soul.  Brown works as a pharmacist and has partnered with Kaiser Permanente to bring their mobile health unit to Imhotep Elementary Saturday for a health fair.  Our conversation goes deeper i.e. being the daughter of a global celebrity, losing a parent and a spouse in less than 5 years; surviving domestic violence and more.  We also learned that Dr. Brown was not gifted with her father's talent for song and dance.

Perspectives S30/Ep11: Cold Sweat - My Father James Brown and Me by Dr. Yamma Brown

EURweb’s Lee Bailey caught up with Dr. Yamma Brown  James Brown's daughter on the red carpet at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. She talks about the film, “Get On Up” the new James Brown bio-pic the family’s reaction to it, her father’s legacy.------.Portside Article: James Brown belongs to us, the black masses, and for us to be excluded from the creative team that made this movie is an obscenity. I'm aware that Spike Lee was involved briefly.James Brown was a civil rights icon. Put James in the pantheon of the most impactful black men of the 20th century, and he would not be out of place. How can I make such an assertion? One song: "I'm Black and I'm Proud."Before that song, if you wanted to start a fight with a man of color, all one had to do was call him black. Up until the mid-sixties, we were trying define ourselves: not colored anymore, now Negro. But black was not something we called ourselves. And along comes this little man and proudly states, "I'm black and I'm proud!" He took the thing that the oppressor used to bludgeon us and made it a weapon of pride for us.

EURweb’s Lee Bailey caught up with Dr. Yamma Brown  James Brown's daughter on the red carpet at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. She talks about the film,  “Get On Up” the new James Brown bio-pic the family’s reaction to it, her father’s legacy. ------. Portside Article: James Brown belongs to us, the black masses, and for us to be excluded from the creative team that made this movie is an obscenity. I'm aware that Spike Lee was involved briefly. James Brown was a civil rights icon. Put James in the pantheon of the most impactful black men of the 20th century, and he would not be out of place. How can I make such an assertion? One song: "I'm Black and I'm Proud." Before that song, if you wanted to start a fight with a man of color, all one had to do was call him black. Up until the mid-sixties, we were trying define ourselves: not colored anymore, now Negro. But black was not something we called ourselves. And along comes this little man and proudly states, "I'm black and I'm proud!" He took the thing that the oppressor used to bludgeon us and made it a weapon of pride for us.

James Brown Music: Watch James Brown's daughter Dr. Yamma Brown