On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson Jr. presents highlights from a conversation between eight-time Grammy Award winner Usher and Apple Music Radio host Nakeska Alexis, recorded prior to Usher’s halftime performance at Super Bowl 45.
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Reshonda Tate (Ep. 21, 2024)
On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Reshonda Tate, screenwriter, movie producer and award-winning, best-selling author. Tate’s latest book The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel is a fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, whose Academy Award winning portrayal of Mammy in Gone With the Wind brought her as much difficulty as opportunity.
KUT Morning Newscast for March 14, 2024
Central Texas top stories for March 14, 2024. The city of Austin resumed contract negotiations with the local police union. The median sales price of homes in the Austin area is up slightly. Georgetown could partner with Williamson County to expand its animal shelter. The NAACP this week urged Black athletes to boycott predominantly white schools in Florida over the state’s anti-DEI policies. The University of Texas men’s basketball team is out of the Big 12 tournament.
Texas Standard: February 18, 2022
Nineteen indictments of Austin police officers in what appears to be one of the biggest indictments of a single police department in connection with the racial justice demonstrations of 2020. Also, the week in politics with the Texas Tribune. These stories and more today on the Texas Standard:
Lena Horne (Ep. 10, 2020)
On this week’s In Black America program, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1983 interview with the legendary singer, dancer, actress and Civil Rights activist, who died in 2010 after a film, television and theater career that spanned 70 years.
Joe Madison (Ep. 39, 2017)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Joe Madison, “The Black Eagle,” about his career in broadcasting, politics, civil rights and social activism, and his award-winning talk show on Sirius/XM’s Urban View Radio.
Judge Nathaniel R. Jones (Ep. 13, 2017)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with The Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, retired Judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and author of Answering The Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America.
Joe Madison, pt. 2 (Ep. 52, 2016)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes a conversation with Joe Madison, “The Black Eagle,” award-winning national talk show host on Sirius/XM Urban View Radio and former Executive Director of Detroit’s NAACP branch.
Joe Madison (Ep. 51, 2016)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Joe Madison, “The Black Eagle,” award-winning national talk show host on Sirius/XM Urban View Radio and former Executive Director of Detroit’s NAACP branch.
Dr. Aldon Morris (Ep. 35, 2016)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Dr. Aldon Morris, the Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African America Studies at Northwestern University and author of The Scholar Denied: W.E.B Dubois – The Birth of Modern Sociology.