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 the largest design organizations in the world, leading design centers in eight countries, responsible for the design and development of all […]

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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, developing the concept of producing and distributing food products targeting African American consumers and promoting the growth of ethnic food distribution. Williams died December […]

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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 at the University of New Mexico, and author of a study examining the multilevel societal factors that contribute to disparities in gun violence […]

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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: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, which tells the epic story of the struggle to integrate […]

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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 experience, Director of the Center for the Study of the American South and The National Humanities Center, and award-winning author of Black […]

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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 businesses, who founded Black Enterprise Magazine in 1970. He died April 8, 2020, at the age of 85. The full transcript of this episode […]

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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 American owner of a major daily newspaper, The Oakland Tribune. Maynard was also a co-founder of The Institute For Journalism Education, a non-profit […]

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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 author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with an interview recorded in February 1988. […]

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