October 24, 1962

James Brown

He was born in a one-room shack in Barnwell, South Carolina, in 1933. He moved to Augusta, Georgia, when he was five. His mother abandoned him, he grew up in abject poverty and was sent to jail for petty theft at fifteen. But James Brown overcame it all to become one of the most influential […]

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James Brown once owned Augusta, Georgia radio station WAAW.