News about Count Basie

After admittedly misidentifying the ostensibly anti-Semitic group protesting outside Barclays Center on Sunday, Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving denied supporting a sect of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement. On Twitter, footage of the protest showed scores of purple-clad men marching outside Barclays Center in favor of Irving, his former Celtics teammate, who was returning from an eight-game suspension for promoting a allegedly anti-Semitic film created by Black Hebrew Israelite author and director Ronald Dalton Jr. Brown has steadfastly supported him, saying 'Energy' in reaction to the video. However, as Brown said Monday, the men in purple shirts were from the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, a national organization at Howard University that has included such notable African Americans as poet Langston Hughes, bandleader Count Basie, and Reverend Jessie Jackson.