This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson discusses the history of African Americans in U.S. Armed Services with Dan C. Goldberg, a health-care reporter with Politico, and author of The Golden 13: How Black Men Won The Right To Wear Navy Gold.
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Joel G. Baker (Ep. 33, 2019)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Austin, Texas Fire Chief Joel G. Baker, Austin’s first African American Fire Department Chief, whose career includes more than 30 years in Atlanta, including 3 years as fire chief there
Dr. Patrice A. Harris (Ep. 40, 2018)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Patrice A. Harris, an Atlanta, Georgia psychiatrist and President-elect of the American Medical Association. Dr. Harris is the first African American woman to lead the AMA.
Amy Hill Hearth (Ep. 14, 2018)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Amy Hill Hearth, journalist and author of Streetcar To Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings Won The Right To Ride In New York, about a 19th Century African American woman’s fight for justice.
Jarrad Henderson (Ep. 32, 2016)
In Black America presents a discussion of African American sororities and fraternities with Jarrad Henderson, producer and director of Beyond This Place: The Visual History of African American Fraternities and Sororities.