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May 26, 2023

Bernard Shaw (Ep. 25, 2023)

By: John L. Hanson

On this week’s episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Bernard Shaw, a pioneering African American broadcast journalist and CNN’s chief anchor from 1980 until his retirement in 2001. Shaw died in September, 2022, at the age of 82.


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September 24, 2023

Roland S. Martin (Ep. 43, 2023)

On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson speaks with Roland S. Martin, journalist, author, and Managing Editor of Roland Martin Unfiltered and founder of The Black Star Network. Speaking at the National Urban League Conference in Houston this July, Martin discusses his career, from print journalism, radio, CNN, The Black […]

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September 17, 2023

Dr. Carmen Fields, pt,2 (Ep. 42, 2023)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson concludes his conversation with Dr. Carmen Fields, Emmy-Award winning broadcast news journalist and author of Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, which tells the story of Dr. Fields’ father, trombonist, pianist and bandleader Ernest (Ernie) Lawrence Fields.

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September 10, 2023

Dr. Carmen Fields, pt.1 (Ep. 41, 2023)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson begins a conversation with Dr. Carmen Fields, Emmy-Award winning broadcast news journalist and author of Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, which tells the story of Dr. Fields’ father, trombonist, pianist and bandleader Ernest (Ernie) Lawrence Fields.

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