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Article: Tribute to James Brown: in my words.(Obituary)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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I was 16 years old when I was ushered into James Brown's dressing room by two radio personalities who wanted him to meet the young civil rights preacher his son had befriended in New York. His son Teddy Brown, also 16, had just been killed in a car accident in New York. I had been very much involved in civil rights work first as the youth director to the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Operation Breadbasket in New York and then leading my own youth group which Teddy had supported.
James Brown wanted to do something in memory of his son and was curious to meet this young preacher his son had befriended. This meeting in the early 1970s began a father-son relationship that ...