IBA profiles a diverse selection of current and historically significant figures whose stories help illuminate life in Black America.
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May102 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 2012 interview with the late Dr. Williams Charles Akins, the pioneering educator, high school Principal and District Administrator ...
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Apr302 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes a discussion of the King family history and its role in the Civil Rights Movement as chronicled in Daddy King: An Autobiography by M...
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Apr233 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the influence of Martin Luther King, Sr. (Daddy King), on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with Isaac Newton Farris, Jr. former CEO...
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Apr163 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents public comments from Reggie McKenzie, Doug Williams, Anthony Lynn and Kevin Warren, at the 12th Annual Johnnie L. Cochran Salute to E...
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Apr093 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents interviews, addresses, and public comments from the 12th Annual Johnnie L. Cochran Salute to Excellence Awards at Super Bowl 51.
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Apr023 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Harold Young, assistant professor in the department of Political Science at Austin Peay University and author of Incoming Fir...
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Mar264 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents highlights from the 30th Super Bowl Breakfast, with 2017 Bart Starr Award recipient Matthew Slater, along with Jackie Slater, James B...
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Mar194 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Jeff Ballou, News Editor at Al Jazeera Media Network’s English Language Channel, and the 110th President of...
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Mar134 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Meaghan “Meag” Taylor, on-air personality and Assistant Program Director with WTUG Radio in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and fo...
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Mar064 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with The Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, retired Judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and author of Answering The C...
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Feb265 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a second look at four notable Achievers who have made significant contributions to African American life: John Wooten, Michel Martin,...
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Feb195 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Margot Lee Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Spac...
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Feb125 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1988 interview with the late Alex Haley, the acclaimed writer best known for Roots: The Saga of an American Family and The Autobiog...
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Feb055 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with J. Paul Montgomery, author of Mama’s Black Child: A Veteran’s Memoir, a compelling story of growing up under Jim Crow ...
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Jan295 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a discussion of Don Cornelius and Soul Train with Nelson George, filmmaker, producer, journalist, and author of The Hippest Trip In A...
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Jan226 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with The Honorable Robert L. Wilkins, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and author of Long Hard Road To...
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Jan166 months agoIn Black America producer and host John. L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 88th anniversary of his birth, featuring Dr. Kin, the late Coretta Sc...
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Jan096 months agoIn Black America host and producer John L. Hanson, Jr presents a 1998 conversation with the late Ruth Brown, the great Rhythm and Blues singer known as The Queen of R&B, who died in 2006.
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Jan016 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 2004 interview with the late Dr. John Hope Franklin, a distinguished professor of legal history who helped prepare the case for Bro...
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Dec257 months agoIn Black America producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with legendary Gospel recording artist Bishop Rance Allen, celebrating The Rance Allen Group’s 40th year in the Gospel music indu...