In Black America
John L. Hanson
February 3, 2025
A Tribute to Alex Haley (Ep. 10, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson presents at tribute to the life and career of legendary biographer, screenwriter and novelist Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with an interview recorded in February […]
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January 27, 2025
Jessica Norwood (Ep. 09, 2025)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Jessica Norwood, financial activist and investor, social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Runway Project, and author of Believe In You Money: What Would It Look Like If The Economy Loved Black People?, about her efforts to remove barriers to investment […]
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January 19, 2025
Jeffery L. Williams (Ep. 08, 2025)
On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson speaks with Jeffery Lorenzo Williams, real estate broker, creator of the shoe and fashion brand JLORENZO, and author of My Feet Are Off The Ground: Turning Tragedy Into Triumph, the story of his journey from suffering permanent paralysis from an accidental shooting […]
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January 12, 2025
A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ep. 07, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 96th anniversary of his birth, featuring commentary by Coretta Scott King, the Honorable Andrew Young, and former President Barack Obama, as well as excerpts from Dr. King’s address […]
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January 5, 2025
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Chuck Bishop, Senior Vice President and Head of Diverse Segments at Wells Fargo Home Lending, who drew inspiration from his mother’s lack of home ownership opportunities to create pathways to home ownership and financial freedom for people of color and […]
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December 29, 2024
A Tribute to the Late John Hope Franklin (Ep. 05, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Dr. John Hope Franklin, a native of Oklahoma, longtime professor and Professor Emeritus at Duke University as well as Fisk University and Howard University, and prolific scholar of African American history who profoundly influenced thinking about […]
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December 22, 2024
Destin G. Bell, pt. 2 (Ep. 04, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson concludes his conversation with Destin George Bell, co-founder and CEO of Card.io, a gamified fitness app that turns outdoor cardio exercise into a community-based game of team turf war that gained credibility and investors after a successful featured appearance on the ABC-TV show […]
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December 16, 2024
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson begins a conversation with Destin George Bell, co-founder and CEO of Card.io, a gamified movement app that turns outdoor cardio exercise into a community-based game of team turf war that gained credibility and investors after a successful featured appearance on the ABC-TV show […]
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For 50 years, “In Black America” has featured weekly interviews with some of the most influential African American voices of our time discussing education, economics, social issues, sports, families, culture, literature and politics.
In 2019, the program received a recordings-at-risk grant to digitize hundreds of old reels containing shows going back to the early 1980s. We don’t yet have these ready for the podcast, but you can listen to them on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting website.
John L. Hanson
In this interview, Hanson reflects on 40+ years of hosting IBA.
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