Hark! Can you hear the urgency of now? Can you feel the treble of children in classrooms? Of mothers wanting more than the status quo? In light of the recent events in our country from the National Football League protests involving Colin Kapernick, to the commentary around Black Lives Matter; we find ourselves at a time of reflection to assess the past to plan and shape the future. We as Alpha men must pause and remember our calling to push justice forward like that of a mighty stream. More so, our communities must pause and focus on the ideal futures that we desire. When will we call upon our nation and world to let, "justice roll down like water?"
Keith M. Brown is currently Senior Vice President of Programming for HLN (formerly CNN Headline News) responsible for daytime and primetime programming, planning and scheduling, news gathering, editorial oversight, and talent for the 24-hour news and information channel. A senior media executive and broadcast journalist, Brown has more than 20 years experience developing and executing innovative programming concepts, formats and strategies at leading cable and broadcast networks.
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Prior to HLN Brown was the managing partner at Perez-Brown Media Group, Inc., a New York-based production company and consulting firm in which he secured a strategic partnership between Aspire Channel and The Root (the premiere website for African American thought leaders) to produce a ground breaking series based on The Root 100, the annual list of the most influential black leaders and innovators between the ages of 25 and 45. Â
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Brown was a senior executive at Viacom Media Networks, serving as Senior Vice President of News and Public Affairs at BET Networks and Vice President of News and Documentaries for Spike TV respectively. He led and managed all editorial programming content and creative teams, production and operations for both networks across all distribution platforms, launching brand-defining series that attracted significant sponsorship and talent to the networks. His leadership garnered both BET and Spike TV critical acclaim and more than 50 awards, including a national Emmy Award, two NAACP Image Awards, numerous NABJ Awards for Excellence in Journalism and a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
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Brown has received a George Foster Peabody Award, an Emmy Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Award as part of the producing team for "In the Killing Fields of America," a 3-hour special on violence hosted by Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Mike Wallace. Upon completion, Brown was selected for the CBS News correspondent development program and assigned as a reporter at WFSB-TV in Hartford, CT.  Â
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Brown is the bestselling author of Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers (Little, Brown and Company, November 1998). With a 12-city book tour, he was featured in newspapers, magazines and on television programs across the country, most notably on the ABC Newsmagazine 20/20. A frequent public speaker, Brown served two years in the United States Peace Corps in Cameroon, Central Africa and co-founded the International Youth Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization focusing on educational development and international exchange for high school students.Â
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A native of Freehold, New Jersey, Brown is a graduate of Syracuse University and Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism. Brown lives with his wife, television executive Maria Perez-Brown and their daughter, Azuri Jolie in New York City.
