Paul E. X. Brown, former radio and newspaper personality, spent almost six years at WERD as an Announcer, and was Program Director when the Station celebrated its 5th anniversary. Mr. Brown was born in Weir, Mississippi in 1910 and was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, where he began his high school education. The eldest of eleven children, Mr. Brown attended the University of Minnesota and Radio School at Columbia College.

In 1947, Paul Brown came to Atlanta as the editor of the Prince Hall Masonic Review. From there he became an announcer for WEAS Radio Station in Decatur, Georgia, where he hosted a Saturday morning program, played gospel music and read church news on Sunday mornings. The same year Mr. Brown married Verna Alexander Brown. She is a retired Atlanta Board of Education employee who worked at Carver High School for 32 years.

In 1949, Mr. Brown became a part-time announcer for WERD, Atlanta's first Black-owned and operated radio station. In 1950, Mr. Brown took his show on the road becoming Chief Announcer and News Editor for Birmingham, Alabama's WEDR Radio Station. He returned to Atlanta in 1951 as an Announcer for WERD. In 1962, Paul E. X. Brown became a Sales and Marketing Representative for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Atlanta.

Known for his community involvement, Mr. Brown's is most noted during the 1954-56 Atlanta Rape Case. He and other Black media personalities in Atlanta protested against the unfair treatment, trial and sentencing of Frederick Mosley to the electric chair for a crime which they believed he did not commit. As a result, Mr. Brown established the Gospel Fund as a means to eliminate the unfair treatment of Blacks who have become victims of the Judicial System of Atlanta.

Paul Brown is a Prince Hall Mason (33rd degree), a Shriner and an Elk. He is a member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and has contributed to the YMCA as a Lay Leader. He was also Chairman of Activities for the Boy Scouts of America, and has been a member of the Adelphi Club. In recent years Mr. Brown continues to be involved in community-related activities, and still resides in the city of Atlanta.