In Black America
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Larry Wansley, pt. 1 (Ep. 24, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Larry Wansley, former Marine, Compton, California police officer, FBI undercover agent, and author of…
Mark S. Robinson, pt. 2 (Ep. 23, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Mark S. Robinson, author of Black on Madison Avenue, about his four decade-long career working at…
Mark S. Robinson (Ep. 22, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Mark S. Robinson, a forty-year veteran of high-level, prestigious advertising and marketing agencies and author or…
Chris Boucher (Ep. 21, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the life and legacy of pioneering African American basketball player Harry “Bucky” Lew with Chris Boucher, author of…
Dr. Rosenna Bakari (Ep. 20, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Rosenna Bakari, psychologist, empowerment expert, educator and author of Seven Exits: Leave Behind What No Longer…
Gladys H. DeCouet, pt. 2 (Ep. 19, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Gladys H. DeClouet, a pioneering executive and engineer who began her professional career as the…
Gladys H. DeClouet (Ep. 18, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Gladys DeClouet, a pioneering executive leading divisions at major corporations like British Petroleum,…
Ed Welburn (Ep. 17, 2026 r–broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson presents a conversation with Ed Welburn, Vice President of Global Design at General Motors, the first African American to head one of…
William F. “Bill” Williams (Ep. 16, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. remembers the late William F. “Bill” Williams, the pioneering philanthropic co-founder of Glory Foods, Inc. in 1989,…
Dr. Tameka Gillum (Ep. 15, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 2024 conversation with Dr. Tameka Gillum, Associate Professor of Community Health in the College of Population Health…
Michelle Adams (Ep. 14, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Michelle Adams, law professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and author of Containment:…
Dr. Blair LM Kelley (Ep. 13, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Dr. Blair LM Kelley, a noted scholar of Black History and the African American…
A Tribute to Earl G. Graves, Sr. (Ep. 12, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Earl Graves, Sr., entrepreneur, publisher, philanthropist and advocate of African American…
Robert C. Maynard (Ep. 11, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson presents an interview recorded in 1985 with Robert C. Maynard, a newspaper journalist and editor who became the first African…
A Tribute to Alex Haley (Ep. 10, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson pays tribute to the life and career of legendary biographer, screenwriter and novelist Alexander Murray Palmer Haley, best known as the…
Ralph McDaniels (Ep. 09, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with pioneering music video director, DJ and VJ Ralph McDaniels, who in 1983 created Studio 31 Dance Party, a television…
Jeffery L. Williams (Ep. 08, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson speaks with Jeffery Lorenzo Williams, real estate broker, creator of the shoe and fashion brand JLORENZO, and author of My Feet…
A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ep. 07, 2026)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 97th anniversary of his birth, featuring commentary by…
Chuck Bishop (Ep. 06, 2026 re-broadcast)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Chuck Bishop, Senior Vice President and Head of Diverse Segments at Wells Fargo Home Lending,…
John Hope Franklin, Jr. (Ep. 05, 2026 re-broadcast)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late John Hope Franklin, a noted scholar of African American history, whose career of more than 60…
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In Black America has published 300 episodes since September 2020, covering topics in Documentary, History.
In Black America is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 29m.
