This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to pioneering journalist the late Robert C. Maynard, newspaper publisher, editor and former owner of the Oakland Tribune newspaper, the first African American to own a major daily newspaper, with an interview recorded in 1985. Maynard died in August […]

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On this episode of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents an interview with American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association legend, Olympic gold medalist, and trailblazer Spencer Haywood, recorded in 2015 on the occasion of his induction into the NBA Hall of Fame.

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This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson presents at 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 […]

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