This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Glynn Turman, Emmy and NAACP Award-winning actor, writer, director and producer, about his six-decade-long film, television and stage career, with landmark roles in A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway, various television programs, Cooley High, and now a documentary of his life.
A Raisin in the Sun
Glynn Turman (Ep. 15, 2022)
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, director and producer Glynn Turman, whose career began in 1959 in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun and includes film and television roles, most currently as Emmett Till’s great-uncle in ABC’s Women of the Movement.
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (Ep. 1, 2022)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1998 interview with the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, the renowned and distinguished stage and film actors who were also influential civil rights activists.
Dr. Imani Perry, pt. 2 (Ep 12, 2019)
On this week’s In Black America, John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes 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.
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.
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (Ep. 1, 2018)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1998 interview with the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, one of the most revered couples of the American stage and films, on the 100th anniversary of Davis’ birth.