African American health issues

Wylin D. Wilson (Ep. 47, 2025)

On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the failure of mainstream bioethics to include the perpectives of African American women, and the resultant disparities in health outcomes, with Wylin D. Wilson, Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School and author of Womanist Bioethics: Social Justice, Spirituality, and Black Women’s Health.

Dr. Aaron Horne, MD. (Ep. 27, 2021)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the factors  resulting in the disproportionate numbers of African Americans with heart disease, and current efforts to overcome those disparities with Dr. Aaron Horne, MD.,  and interventional cardiologist and heart care specialist in North Richland Hill, Texas.

Michelle Green Rhodes (Ep. 19, 2021)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses wellness issues and health literacy among African Americans with Michelle Green Rhodes, CEO of Michelle Rhodes Media LLC in Tampa, Florida. Ms. Rhodes is a four-time author and Editor-in-Chief of The Color of Wellness magazine, which launched in January, 2021.