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In Black America producer and host John. L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 88th anniversary of his birth, featuring Dr. Kin, the late Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young, the late Robert F. Kennedy, and former President Barack Obama.
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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December 9, 2024
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Chanel Dupree, an award-winning screenwriter and director, whose recent documentary, You Think You Grown: Dismantling Adultification, which addresses issues of racial and gender stereotypes, specifically the societal perception of African American girls sexually and physically mature beyond their years.
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December 1, 2024
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (Ep. 01, 2025)
On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L, Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the lives of the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, one of the most revered couples of the American stage and screen, whose careers spanned six decades and were distinguished for their work as actors and as […]
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November 24, 2024
A Tribute to Shirley Chisholm (Ep. 52, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents an interview recorded in 1982 with the late Shirley A. Chisholm, the former Congresswoman from New York’s 12th Congressional District, the first African America woman elected to Congress, and the first major-party African American candidate for President of the United States.
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November 17, 2024
King Hollis and Lindell Singleton (Ep. 51, 2024)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with King Hollis and Lindell Singleton, co-directors, writers and producers of Quakertown, USA, a film about a thriving black settlement originally called Freedman Town, in North Texas, which was eliminated by malevolent political and economic forces in 1921.
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November 10, 2024
T. Dallas Smith (Ep. 50, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with T. Dallas Smith, founder and CEO of T. Dallas Smith & Company, the largest African American-owned pure tenant representation commercial real estate country in America, with a focus on mentoring young African Americans in the commercial real estate industry.
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