In Black America

By KUT & KUTX Studios, John L. Hanson

What's In Black America about?

IBA profiles a diverse selection of current and historically significant figures whose stories help illuminate life in Black America.

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In Black America episodes:

04.28.2024
The 2024 Bart Starr Awards (Ep. 22, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents highlights from the Athletes in Action Super Bowl Breakfast, including the presentation of the Bart Starr award for outstanding character and leadership to Minkah Fitzpatrick, and...
04.21.2024
Reshonda Tate (Ep. 21, 2024)
On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Reshonda Tate, screenwriter, movie producer and award-winning, best-selling author. Tate’s latest book The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel is a...
04.14.2024
The 2024 Fritz Pollard Award (Ep. 20, 2024)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents highlights from the The Fritz Pollard Alliance’s 19th annual Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Salute to Excellence Awards, featuring a discussion around the emergence of the Black...
04.07.2024
Bryan Simms (Ep. 19, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Bryan Simms, founder and President of Mammoth Life and Reinsurance Company, the only minority-owned distribution and reinsurance carrier delivering data-advantaged policies to underserved African American...
03.31.2024
Dr. Harry L. Williams (Ep. 18, 2024)
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Harry L. Williams, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which champions the Black College community and provides financial and...
03.24.2024
Phillip Washington, Jr. (Ep. 17, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses racial wealth equity and the positive effects of financial literacy in narrowing the wealth gap between White and minority Americans with Phillip Washington, Jr. CEO ad...
03.17.2024
Sam Acho (Ep. 16, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with former NFL and Texas Longhorn linebacker, ESPN analyst, and humanitarian Sam Acho prior to the 2024 Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, about his work...
03.10.2024
The Honorable Craig Watkins (Ep. 15, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Honorable Craig Watkins, former Dallas County, Texas Criminal District Attorney, the first African American District Attorney in the state of Texas,...
03.04.2024
A Tribute to Rance Allen (Ep. 14, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late minister and legendary Gospel singer Bishop Rance Allen, founder of the Rance Allen Group, with an interview recorded in 2016. Rance...
02.25.2024
Byron Hurt and Althier Eady, pt. 2 (Ep. 13, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with writer and filmmaker Byron Hurt and Althier Eady, granddaughter of Lee and Liza Hurt, discussing the development and production of Lee and Liza’s...
02.18.2024
Byron Hurt and Althier Eady, pt. 1 (Ep. 12, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with documentary filmmaker and writer Byron Hurt and Althier Eady, granddaughter of Lee and Liza Hurt, about a new documentary film recently aired on...
02.11.2024
A Tribute to Earl Graves, Sr. (Ep. 11, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Earl Graves, Sr., entrepreneur, publisher, and advocate of African American businesses, who founded Black Enterprise Magazine in 1970. He died in...
02.04.2024
A Tribute to Mary Wilson (Ep. 10, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Mary Wilson, a co-founder of the legendary Supremes, featuring an interview with and public comments by Wilson, recorded in 2019 during...
01.28.2024
Franklin C. Edwards (Ep. 9, 2024)
On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Franklin C. Edwards, author, publisher and owner of Franklin The Helper Children’s Books in Plano, Texas, whose mission is to help children overcome social...
01.23.2024
John Saunders and Irv Cross (Ep. 8, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a look back at the state of African American presence in sports broadcasting, presenting interviews recorded in 1987 with the late John Saunders and Irv Cross,...
01.14.2024
Remembering The Late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ep. 7, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to and remembrance of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with commentary by Dr. King, former U.S. President Barack Obama, the late...
01.07.2024
Kristen Gentry (Ep. 6. 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Kristen Gentry, an award-winning fiction writer from Louisville, Kentucky and author of Mama Said, a fictional account of three daughters of a drug-addicted mother and...
12.31.2023
A Tribute to Shirley A. Chisholm (Ep. 5, 2024)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a 1982 interview with the late Shirley A. Chisholm, a former Congresswoman from New York’s 12 Congressional District who in 1968 became the first African American...
12.24.2023
Dr. Blair LM Kelley (Ep. 4, 2024)
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Blair LM Kelley, a noted scholar of Black History and the African American experience, Director of the Center for the Study of...
12.17.2023
Dr. Brian H. Williams, MD. (Ep. 3, 2024)
In this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Brian H. Williams, MD., a trauma surgeon, Air Force Academy alumnus, former congressional health policy advisor, and author The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches...
12.10.2023
Nathaniel Glover, pt. 2 (Ep. 02, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Nathaniel Glover, the first African American elected Sheriff in Jacksonville, Florida since the end of Reconstruction, a former Jacksonville police officer with a...
12.03.2023
Nathaniel Glover, pt. 1 (Ep. 01, 2024)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Nathaniel glover, the first African American elected Sheriff in Jacksonville, Florida since the end of Reconstruction, a former president of Edward Waters College,...
11.26.2023
Ying McGuire (Ep. 52, 2023)
On this week’s edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Ying McGuire, President and CEO of The National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc., and influential growth engine for systematically excluded minority-owned businesses seeking...
11.19.2023
Michael Phillips (Ep. 51, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Michael Phillips, Chief Operating Officer of social impact holding company T.D. Jakes Enterprises, discussing the Good Soil Movement, a new national initiative aimed at cultivating...
11.12.2023
Tammie Lang Campbell (Ep. 50, 2023)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Tammi Lang Campbell, founder and Executive Director of The Honey Brown Hope Foundation, a nationally recognized, award-winning 501 (C)3 non-profit that supports civil rights and...
11.05.2023
Jessica Taylor (Ep. 49, 2023)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Ezra Coffee founder and CEO Jessica Taylor, a former educator and Diversion and Inclusion strategist, as well as reality TV show cast member, who incorporates...
10.31.2023
Four African American Mayors, pt. 2 (Ep. 48, 2023)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents additional highlights from the 2023 National Urban League Annual Conference in Houston, Texas, featuring comments from Mayors Sylvester Turner of Houston, Eric Adams of New York...
10.22.2023
Four African American Mayors, pt. 1 (Ep. 47, 2023)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents highlights from the 2023 National Urban League Annual Conference in Houston, Texas, featuring comments from Mayors Sylvester Turner of Houston, Eric Adams of New York City,...
10.15.2023
Michelle Miller (Ep. 46, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Michelle Miller, award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning and author of Belonging: A Daughter’s Search For Identity Through Loss And Love, which chronicles the...
10.08.2023
Judson W. Robinson III (Ep. 45, 2023)
On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents an address by Judson W. Robinson III, President and CEO of the Houston Area Urban League, at the 2023 National Urban League Conference in Houston,...
10.01.2023
Marc H. Morial (Ep. 44, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents an address by and a conversation with Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of The National Urban League at the historic Civil Rights organization’s National Conference,...
09.24.2023
Roland S. Martin (Ep. 43, 2023)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson speaks with Roland S. Martin, journalist, author, and Managing Editor of Roland Martin Unfiltered and founder of The Black Star Network. Speaking at the National Urban League Conference...
09.17.2023
Dr. Carmen Fields, pt,2 (Ep. 42, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson concludes his conversation with Dr. Carmen Fields, Emmy-Award winning broadcast news journalist and author of Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, which tells the...
09.10.2023
Dr. Carmen Fields, pt.1 (Ep. 41, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson begins a conversation with Dr. Carmen Fields, Emmy-Award winning broadcast news journalist and author of Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, which tells the...
09.03.2023
Dr. Sarah Washington O’Neal Rush (Ep. 40, 2023)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Sarah Washington O’Neal Rush, author, educator, and great-granddaughter of former slave turned famous educator and founder of Tuskegee University and became on of the...
08.27.2023
Glynn Turman (Ep. 39, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Glynn Turman, Emmy and NAACP Award-winning actor, writer, director and producer, about his six-decade-long film, television and stage career, with landmark roles in A Raisin...
08.20.2023
Jeanette Abraham, pt. 2 (Ep. 38, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes a conversation with Jeanette Abraham, founder, president and CEO of JMA Global, LLC, a 100% minority and female-owned company that Ms. Abraham has developed, over the...
08.13.2023
Jeanette Abraham, pt. 1 (Ep. 37, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Jeanette Abraham, founder, president and CEO of JMA Global, LLC, a 100% minority and female-owned company that Ms. Abraham has developed, over the...
08.07.2023
Dr. Tamika Henry, MD. (Ep. 36, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Dr. Tamika Henry, MD., founder of The Unlimited Health Institute in Los Angeles, whose mission is to raise awareness about juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and treating...
07.30.2023
Brittney Martin (Ep. 35, 2023)
On this editi0n of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Brittney Martin, co-host and Executive Producer of Sugar Land, and eight-episode podcast that explores how the discovery of an old cemetery forced a city...
07.27.2023
Dr. Tommie Smith, pt. 2 (Ep. 34, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Dr. Tommie Smith, 1968 Summer Olympics track and field gold medalist, Civil Rights activist, and co–author of Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist For...
07.16.2023
Dr. Tommie Smith, part 1 (Ep. 33, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents the beginning of a conversation with Dr. Tommie Smith, 1968 Summer Olympics track and field gold medalist, Civil Rights activist, and co–author of Victory. Stand! Raising...
07.09.2023
Ebony Janice Moore (Ep. 32, 2023)
On this week’s In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the personal liberation of African American women with Ebony Janice Moore, founder and CEO of The Free People Project and The Ebony Janice Project, and author...
07.02.2023
Phyllis Hyman (Ep. 31, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Jazz and R&B singer Phyllis Hyman, with an interview recorded in 1983, discussing her professional music career, which began in 1971...
06.25.2023
James B. Rosseau (Ep. 30, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with James B. Rosseau, Sr., founder and CEO of The Corelink Solution, co-owner of Christian Media Properties, and author or Success on Your Own Terms: 6...
06.18.2023
Lydia Pope (Ep. 29, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the struggles and challenges of African American families against discriminatory real estate policies and practices in the housing market with Lydia Pope, President of the National Association...
06.11.2023
Jerry Adams and Ben Tankard (Ep. 28, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with media mogul Jerry Adams, President and CEO of VTV Television Network, and music mogul Ben Tankard, pioneering Gospel and Smooth Jazz musician and producer, about...
06.04.2023
Ken Coleman (Ep. 27, 2023)
This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses the history of the legendary jazz nightclub Baker’s Keyboard Lounge and its role in the cultural and economic resurgence of Detroit, with historian Ken Coleman, Special...
05.29.2023
K. Braeden Anderson (Ep. 26, 2023)
On this week’s edition of In BlackAmerica, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. discusses strategies for African American success and empowerment with K. Braeden Anderson, attorney, philanthropist, entrepreneur and author of Black Resilience: A Blueprint for Black Triumph in...
05.26.2023
Bernard Shaw (Ep. 25, 2023)
On this week’s episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to the late Bernard Shaw, a pioneering African American broadcast journalist and CNN’s chief anchor from 1980 until his retirement in 2001....

What's In Black America about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

In Black America episodes:

The 2024 Bart Starr Awards (Ep. 22, 2024)

Reshonda Tate (Ep. 21, 2024)

The 2024 Fritz Pollard Award (Ep. 20, 2024)

Bryan Simms (Ep. 19, 2024)

Dr. Harry L. Williams (Ep. 18, 2024)

Phillip Washington, Jr. (Ep. 17, 2024)

Sam Acho (Ep. 16, 2024)

The Honorable Craig Watkins (Ep. 15, 2024)

A Tribute to Rance Allen (Ep. 14, 2024)

Byron Hurt and Althier Eady, pt. 2 (Ep. 13, 2024)

Byron Hurt and Althier Eady, pt. 1 (Ep. 12, 2024)

A Tribute to Earl Graves, Sr. (Ep. 11, 2024)

A Tribute to Mary Wilson (Ep. 10, 2024)

Franklin C. Edwards (Ep. 9, 2024)

John Saunders and Irv Cross (Ep. 8, 2024)

Remembering The Late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ep. 7, 2024)

Kristen Gentry (Ep. 6. 2024)

A Tribute to Shirley A. Chisholm (Ep. 5, 2024)

Dr. Blair LM Kelley (Ep. 4, 2024)

Dr. Brian H. Williams, MD. (Ep. 3, 2024)

Nathaniel Glover, pt. 2 (Ep. 02, 2024)

Nathaniel Glover, pt. 1 (Ep. 01, 2024)

Ying McGuire (Ep. 52, 2023)

Michael Phillips (Ep. 51, 2023)

Tammie Lang Campbell (Ep. 50, 2023)

Jessica Taylor (Ep. 49, 2023)

Four African American Mayors, pt. 2 (Ep. 48, 2023)

Four African American Mayors, pt. 1 (Ep. 47, 2023)

Michelle Miller (Ep. 46, 2023)

Judson W. Robinson III (Ep. 45, 2023)

Marc H. Morial (Ep. 44, 2023)

Roland S. Martin (Ep. 43, 2023)

Dr. Carmen Fields, pt,2 (Ep. 42, 2023)

Dr. Carmen Fields, pt.1 (Ep. 41, 2023)

Dr. Sarah Washington O’Neal Rush (Ep. 40, 2023)

Glynn Turman (Ep. 39, 2023)

Jeanette Abraham, pt. 2 (Ep. 38, 2023)

Jeanette Abraham, pt. 1 (Ep. 37, 2023)

Dr. Tamika Henry, MD. (Ep. 36, 2023)

Brittney Martin (Ep. 35, 2023)

Dr. Tommie Smith, pt. 2 (Ep. 34, 2023)

Dr. Tommie Smith, part 1 (Ep. 33, 2023)

Ebony Janice Moore (Ep. 32, 2023)

Phyllis Hyman (Ep. 31, 2023)

James B. Rosseau (Ep. 30, 2023)

Lydia Pope (Ep. 29, 2023)

Jerry Adams and Ben Tankard (Ep. 28, 2023)

Ken Coleman (Ep. 27, 2023)

K. Braeden Anderson (Ep. 26, 2023)

Bernard Shaw (Ep. 25, 2023)