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This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the origins of the Black Lives Matter Movement with Solomon Jones, award-winning columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, morning host at WURD Radio in Philadelphia, and author of Ten Lives, Ten Demands: Life and Death Stories, and a Black Activist’s Blueprint for Racial Justice.
January 14, 2024
Remembering The Late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ep. 7, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to and remembrance of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with commentary by Dr. King, former U.S. President Barack Obama, the late Robert F. Kennedy, the Honorable Andrew Young, and Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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January 7, 2024
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Kristen Gentry, an award-winning fiction writer from Louisville, Kentucky and author of Mama Said, a fictional account of three daughters of a drug-addicted mother and their struggle to overcome the traumas and challenges of their family life with love and […]
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December 31, 2023
A Tribute to Shirley A. Chisholm (Ep. 5, 2024)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1982 interview with the late Shirley A. Chisholm, a former Congresswoman from New York’s 12 Congressional District who in 1968 became the first African American woman elected to Congress, and, in 1972, the first major-party African American candidate for President […]
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December 24, 2023
Dr. Blair LM Kelley (Ep. 4, 2024)
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks 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 author of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class.
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December 17, 2023
Dr. Brian H. Williams, MD. (Ep. 3, 2024)
In this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Brian H. Williams, MD., a trauma surgeon, Air Force Academy alumnus, former congressional health policy advisor, and author The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches From a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal.
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December 10, 2023
Nathaniel Glover, pt. 2 (Ep. 02, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Nathaniel Glover, the first African American elected Sheriff in Jacksonville, Florida since the end of Reconstruction, a former Jacksonville police officer with a distinguished career, and the author of Striving For Justice: A Black Sheriff In The Deep […]
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December 3, 2023
Nathaniel Glover, pt. 1 (Ep. 01, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Nathaniel glover, the first African American elected Sheriff in Jacksonville, Florida since the end of Reconstruction, a former president of Edward Waters College, and the author of Striving For Justice: A Black Sheriff In The Deep South.
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November 26, 2023
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Ying McGuire, President and CEO of The National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc., and influential growth engine for systematically excluded minority-owned businesses seeking upward market mobility.
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