Since the Browns could not afford to pay for Earlene's training and traveling expenses, Brad Pye Jr., a very influential sports editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel and African-American community activist, led a campaign that raised funds to support her.
Williams who, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is syndicated in over 100 black newspapers and magazines in the United States, Canada and Caribbean, is the chief critic at NewsBlaze.com, and regularly contributes to the Los Angeles Sentinel, Houston Defender, Baltimore Afro-American, AALBC.com, and the historic Tennessee paper, the Tri-State Defender.
On March 17, 2004, the Sentinel was purchased and came under the direction of real estate developer and community activist Danny Bakewell.
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He is the owner of The Bakewell Company, which includes among its holdings the New Orleans radio station WBOK and the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper.
Farrell began his journalistic career as a reporter for the black-oriented California Eagle newspaper and on the Los Angeles Sentinel.