New York's Harlem neighborhood was tough place to grow up in the 1940s and 1950s. Author Claude Brown experienced it and described it in his... Claude Brown: Telling The Harlem Story February is Black ...

Writer Claude Brown has died of a lung condition at age 64. His 1965 book Manchild in the Promised Land was a best seller. It told his own story of growing up in Harlem, New York. Liane Hansen talks ...

In January, 1965, one month before Malcolm X was shot to death in Harlem, two months before civil-rights protesters were brutally attacked in Selma, and seven months before riots overwhelmed the ...

Claude Brown, 64, the author of the controversial 1965 semi-autobiographical novel "Manchild in the Promised Land," a punishing look at street life and survival in Harlem that sold more than 4 million ...

Claude W. Brown Teacher, world traveler, tennis player, photographer, and fisherman, Claude Brown lived an amazing life in his 88 years and was a longtime resident of San Pedro. Born in Wilmington, ...

Claude M. “Doc” Brown passed away on June 6, 2017, hours before his 81st birthday, and after a long battle with dementia–his family at his side. He was born on June 7, 1936 at home in Perry to Claude ...

Claude Brown has been elected president of the St. Louis City NAACP chapter. Brown, a former Teamsters organizer and current 2nd Ward Democratic committeeman, served as a Metropolitan Sewer District ...