In Black America presents Super Bowl Week remarks by NFL Commissioner Roger Goddell, and interviews with USA Today sports journalist Jarrett Bell and KXAS Sports Director Newy Scruggs.
Episodes
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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February 16, 2025
Robert C. Maynard (Ep. 12, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to pioneering journalist the late Robert C. Maynard, newspaper publisher, editor and former owner of the Oakland Tribune newspaper, the first African American to own a major daily newspaper, with an interview recorded in 1985. Maynard died in August […]
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February 9, 2025
Spencer Haywood (Ep. 11, 2025)
On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents an interview with American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association legend, Olympic gold medalist, and trailblazer Spencer Haywood, recorded in 2015 on the occasion of his induction into the NBA Hall of Fame.
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February 3, 2025
A Tribute to Alex Haley (Ep. 10, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson presents at 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 […]
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January 27, 2025
Jessica Norwood (Ep. 09, 2025)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Jessica Norwood, financial activist and investor, social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Runway Project, and author of Believe In You Money: What Would It Look Like If The Economy Loved Black People?, about her efforts to remove barriers to investment […]
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