After so many consecutive nominations, Confucius and Fresh reflect on their first ever ‘Best Radio Show’ Austin Music Award before discussing why longtime Austinites are jaded to good opportunities. And in between Hip-Hop Facts and Confucius Reads the News, Fresh dishes a particularly Unpopular Opinion on why the music industry actually doesn’t need to change.
Spike Lee
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (Ep. 9, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, legendary actors whose careers in theatre, films, and Civil Rights activism spanned seven decades, with an interview recorded in 1998 upon the publication of their dual autobiography, In This Life Together.
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.
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.
Keith Corson (Ep. 38, 2016)
In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the history of Hollywood films targeting African American audiences with Keith Corson, visiting professor of English at Rhodes College and author of Trying To Get Over: African American Directors After Blaxploitation, 1977 to 1986.