Justice Thurgood Marshall

A Tribute to the Late John Hope Franklin (Ep. 05, 2025)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Dr. John Hope Franklin, a native of Oklahoma, longtime professor and Professor Emeritus at Duke University as well as Fisk University and Howard University, and prolific scholar of African American history who profoundly influenced thinking about slavery and Reconstruction. Dr. Franklin died in March 2009.

Benjamin Crump (Ep. 29, 2018)

On this week’s program, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Benjamin Crump, an nationally prominent Civil Rights attorney and advocate, representing clients in important and high-profile cases.In 2015, he became the 73rd president of the National Bar Association.