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April 6, 2025

Super Bowl LIX (Ep. 19, 2025)

By: John L. Hanson

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents highlights from Super Bowl 59, featuring highlights, interviews and commentary from Super Bowl Week in New Orleans, Louisiana, featuring quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy, and Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley.


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April 13, 2025

Dr. Louis Moore, pt. 1 (Ep. 20, 2025)

On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Dr. Louis Moore, professor of History at Grand Valley State University and author of The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback.

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April 6, 2025

Super Bowl LIX (Ep. 19, 2025)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents highlights from Super Bowl 59, featuring highlights, interviews and commentary from Super Bowl Week in New Orleans, Louisiana, featuring quarterbacks Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy, and Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley.

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March 30, 2025

Ralph McDaniels (Ep. 18, 2025)

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 Video Music Box.

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March 23, 2025

Mike Jackson, pt. 2 (Ep. 17, 2025)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Mike Jackson, Emmy and Tony Award-winning film, theater and television producer, host of the new podcast Why Not Me? and co-founder and managing partner with John Legend of Get Lifted Film Co., developing projects for major networks including […]

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March 16, 2025

Mike Jackson, pt. 1 (Ep. 16, 2025)

On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson begins a conversation with Mike Jackson, Emmy and Tony Award-winning film, theater and television producer, co-founder and managing partner with John Legend of Get Lifted Film Co., and host of the new podcast Why Not Me?

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March 9, 2025

Michelle Adams, pt. 2 (Ep. 15, 2025)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Michelle Adams, Professor of Law at The University of Michigan Law School, and author of Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, discussing the epic social and legal struggle to integrate […]

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March 2, 2025

Michelle Adams, pt. 1 (Ep. 14. 2025)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Michelle Adams, Professor of Law at The University of Michigan Law School, and author of Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, discussing the epic social and legal struggle to integrate […]

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February 23, 2025

Phillip Washington, Jr. (Ep. 13, 2025)

On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Phillip Washington, Jr., founder and CEO of Stone Hill Wealth Management, discussing the rising popularity of Bitcoin among African Americans as an alternative to traditional finance: a means of building wealth without banks or governments controlling its supply.

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