Episodes
June 27, 2025
“Why?” Life’s biggest question and, really, its most primal. It’s human nature in a word. Canadian, LA-based producer Mocky (credits include Feist and Moses Sumney, and sampled by GZA and Kanye), who has always been dedicated to curiosity and musical evolution, uses this question as the thesis for his new album Music Will Explain (Choir […]
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May 29, 2025
Dom Francis: “Leave Your Shoes At the Door”
A long journey led Dom Francis to Austin. Originally from the northeast, Francis went through a nomadic phase taking up temporary residence in Missouri, Pennsylvania, El Paso, and now Austin. Francis’s stories and experiences in those places, and the places themselves, have all found a place in Francis’s folk-rock-fueled songs. His previous EPs have led […]
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May 9, 2025
KUT Afternoon Newscast for May 9, 2025
Central Texas top stories for May 9, 2025. Lawyers say Austin woman whose U.S. citizen were deported with her have the right to return. Temporary fix for Travis County 4H program after Americorps cuts. Hays County Jail now has publicly accessible Narcan vending machine. Rain brings drought relief to some areas easy and northeast of […]
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March 23, 2025
Mike Jackson, pt. 2 (Ep. 17, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Mike Jackson, Emmy and Tony Award-winning film, theater and television producer, host of the new podcast Why Not Me? and co-founder and managing partner with John Legend of Get Lifted Film Co., developing projects for major networks including […]
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March 14, 2025
If coffee house ambiance had the same moderately caffeinated energy their beverages do, that would illustrate the energy of Austin alt-pop artist Maxwell Knowles. The bouncing basslines, playful piano melodies, and his suave, baritone voice create a sound that’s interesting and comforting at the same time. Even with a song called “Monsters.” Knowles releases “Monsters” […]
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March 9, 2025
Michelle Adams, pt. 2 (Ep. 15, 2025)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Michelle Adams, Professor of Law at The University of Michigan Law School, and author of Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, discussing the epic social and legal struggle to integrate […]
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February 11, 2022
Trailer: The Austin Transportation Podcast
The Austin Transportation Podcast examines the issues around mobility in the ATX with a focus on how people’s everyday lives are shaped by the decisions of government. Whether you’re sitting on I-35 or MOPAC every day, using alternatives like Capital Metro and scooters, or plodding along a trail, we look at the challenges of getting […]
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June 12, 2018
Happy Pride! This week we speak to African-American Transgender author Toni Newman, Executive Director of St. James Infirmary, about being a proud, Black Southern transgender woman. Self-Taught local illustrator and comic artist Ethan Parker talks about his work rooted at the social causes at the intersections of black womanhood in the queer and trans communities. […]
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