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On this week’s In Black America program, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Valerie Jarrett, former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, moderated by Brittany Packett this past spring at the Summit on Race in America: Liberty and Justice for All.
February 17, 2019
Dr. Imani Perry, pt. 1 (Ep. 11, 2019)
On this week’s In Black America, John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Dr. Imani Perry, the Hughes-Rogers professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of Looking For Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry.
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February 10, 2019
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents an interview from 1983 with the late Lena Horne, the legendary singer, dancer, actress and civil rights activist whose career in film, television and theater spanned 70 years. Ms. Horne died in 2010.
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February 3, 2019
This week, In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1985 interview with retired television journalist Bernard Shaw, examining his distinguished career in broadcasting. Shaw was a correspondent and lead news anchor for CNN from 1980 until his retirement in March 2001.
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January 28, 2019
A Tribute to the Late Alex Haley (Ep. 8, 2019)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1988 interview with the late Alex Haley, the acclaimed writer best known for The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a classic of African American literature and Roots: The Saga of an American Family, based on Haley’s own efforts to trace his African […]
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January 20, 2019
On this week’s program, In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Benjamin Crump, an award-winning Civil Rights attorney and advocate who successfully represented the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Robbie Tolan.
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January 18, 2019
The Late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ep. 6, 2019)
On this week’s program, In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 90th anniversary of his birth, featuring addresses by his widow, Coretta Scott King, and former President Barack Obama.
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January 9, 2019
On this week’s program, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Michael Gibson, co-founder and Chairman of Clear View Group, LLC, an Austin, Texas – based African American investment firm that owns Ebony Magazine and Jetmag.com.
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December 30, 2018
In Black America producer and host discusses social issues and the role of race, violence, politics and law enforcement in news coverage with Trymaine Lee, an award-winning and highly regarded news correspondent for NBC and MSNBC.
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