Episodes
March 15, 2026
William F. “Bill” Williams (Ep. 16, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. remembers the late William F. “Bill” Williams, the pioneering philanthropic co-founder of Glory Foods, Inc. in 1989, developing the concept of producing and distributing food products targeting African American consumers and promoting the growth of ethnic food distribution. Williams died December […]
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March 8, 2026
Dr. Tameka Gillum (Ep. 15, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 2024 conversation with Dr. Tameka Gillum, Associate Professor of Community Health in the College of Population Health at the University of New Mexico, and author of a study examining the multilevel societal factors that contribute to disparities in gun violence […]
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March 1, 2026
Michelle Adams (Ep. 14, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Michelle Adams, law professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and author of Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, which tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate […]
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February 22, 2026
Dr. Blair LM Kelley (Ep. 13, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Dr. Blair LM Kelley, a noted scholar of Black History and the African American experience, Director of the Center for the Study of the American South and The National Humanities Center, and award-winning author of Black […]
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February 15, 2026
A Tribute to Earl G. Graves, Sr. (Ep. 12, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Earl Graves, Sr., entrepreneur, publisher, philanthropist and advocate of African American businesses, who founded Black Enterprise Magazine in 1970. He died April 8, 2020, at the age of 85.
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February 8, 2026
Robert C. Maynard (Ep. 11, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson presents an interview recorded in 1985 with Robert C. Maynard, a newspaper journalist and editor who became the first African American owner of a major daily newspaper, The Oakland Tribune. Maynard was also a co-founder of The Institute For Journalism Education, a non-profit […]
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January 31, 2026
A Tribute to Alex Haley (Ep. 10, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson pays 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 1988. […]
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January 25, 2026
Ralph McDaniels (Ep. 09, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with pioneering music video director, DJ and VJ Ralph McDaniels, who in 1983 created Studio 31 Dance Party, a television program presenting recordings of music performances that evolved into the long-running music video program he created and co-hosts, Video Music Box.
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