This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with author and prison reform activist Kemba Smith, recorded in 2008, discussing her involvement with a crack cocaine dealer, her resulting six-year incarceration and Presidential pardon, and her current work as a criminal justice reform activist.

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This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a conversation with Jessica Norwood, financial activist, investor, social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Runway Project, and author of Believe-In-You Money, discussing the obstacles facing African Americans seeking to build wealth through entrepreneurism and investment, and ways to improve their relationship with finance.

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This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Chanel Dupree, founder of Artistic Laughter Productions and award-winning screenwriter, producer and director of You Think You Grown? Dismantling Adultification, a documentary film highlighting racial and gender stereotypes and the role they play in the societal perception of African American girls.

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This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with T. Dallas Smith, founder and CEO of T. Dallas Smith & Company, the largest African American-owned pure tenant representation commercial real estate firm in the U.S., catering to clients needing office space, industrial facilities and land.

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On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Kristen Gentry, author of Mama Said, a collection of short stories as told by three women who struggled with their mothers’ drug addictions and depression, providing insight into the damaging consequences of their mother’s life choices on multiple generations of their families.

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On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes a discussion of the challenges and opportunities for African American women in the real estate and facility management industry with Denita R. Conway, founder and president of Proven Management LLC, a leading transition planning and logistics company specializing in project management, interior design and transition planning.

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This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Denita R. Conway, founder and president of Proven Management LLC, a recognized leader in the moving and logistics industry, specializing in project management, interior design and transition planning, discussing the challenges facing African American women in the real estate and facility management industry.

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On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Earl Gilbert Graves Sr., pioneering African American entrepreneur, publisher, philanthropist, and advocate of African-American businesses. A graduate of Morgan State University, he was the founder of Black Enterprise magazine and chairman of the media company Earl G. Graves, Ltd

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This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 2024 conversation with veteran journalist James Brown, host of NFL Today on CBS and Inside The NFL on Showtime, and a three-time Emmy Award-winning network broadcaster who was elected in 2020 to the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

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On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Karida L. Brown, professor of Sociology at Emory University, Oral Historian, and author of The Battle For The Black Mind, discussing the history of segregated schools as the foundation of current systemic inequities from the perspective of archival research and sociological insight.

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