May 5, 2013 11:28 am by: John Hanson

The Dramatics. Ron Banks, front row, center.
On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the late Ron Banks. Banks, singer and a founding member of the Detroit vocal group, which formed in…...
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Hello, interweb friends! It's Friday, and the weekend's getting underway, so you're probably thinking about how to entertain yourself. Sure, you could spend all kinds of money going to see Iron Man 3, but why do that when you can listen to this podcast for free and it's pretty much the same thing, anyway? Except for the action and special effects and really any visuals of any kind, we've got it all!
And we certainly do have some good stuff, starting off with a brand-new installment of Liner Notes, featuring Rabbi Neil Blumofe. Neil's a super good dude, and today he's talking about Louis Armstrong. If you don't like Louis Armstrong, you've got a hole in your soul.
And what else, you ask? How's about a little something from the fine folks over at RTÉ Radio One... » read more
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What's all this? A complete episode of O'Dark to listen to online? Yes indeed! It's been a while since we posted complete episodes of the big big show online, but despite a complete lack of demand, we're doing it again.
This episode features 180 minutes of audio goodness, including such fan...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents a tribute to the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the less than 13 years of King’s leadership of the modern Civil Rights Movement, from December 1955 until April 4th, 1968, African Americans achieved more...
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We've been informed by Wikipedia that today marks the 22nd anniversary of a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France. A witness to the event said "The device had the shape of two saucers, one inverted on top of the other. It must have measured about 1.5 meters in height," except he probably said...
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A hale and hearty good day to you all! It's a bittersweet day on the old podcast page, as we bring you the final episode of the current season of
Master Class. It's a pretty good one, too: our buddy John Pierson chats it up with director David Gordon Green of
Pineapple Express...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Christopher Cooper, author of Get Sh*t Done. Cooper is the President/CEO of
Execute Your Passion, LLC- an Atlanta based professional services firm specializing...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Ben Green, author of Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights Martyr and the Moore’s second daughter, Evangeline Moore. In 1951, on Christmas night, Harry T. Moore and his...
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With Christmas just a week away, things are getting hard-core festive around O'Dark Central. There's mistletoe and holly all over the place, Hawk seems to be on an all egg nog diet, and David's been riding to work on a reindeer. But we're not letting the holiday cheer stop us from churning out...
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I've just been informed that corduroy is the "cloth of kings," which is great news because I'm wearing a corduroy sport coat right now and now I feel all fancy. Plus it's a chilly day, so it's great corduroy weather. What I'm saying, basically, is that if you're not wearing corduroy right now...
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Hey guys, did you know that our host Hawk Mendenhall has recently returned home from Africa? Of course you did, because that's all he's talked about since returning home from Africa. The dude brags about going to Africa like he
invented Africa or something. Just be thankful that you only...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dr. John M. Hoberman, Ph.D., Chair, Germanic Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, and author of Black & Blue The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism. Almost all studies of medical racism in this country...
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Hello and welcome back, loyal interwebbers! Thanks for bearing with us while we took the holidays off, and for checking back in to grab this rare Wednesday podcast.
We trust the holiday break was good for you and yours. We're very excited around here because just before Christmas the
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Hello and a merry Christmas to you all! We love our listeners and interweb followers a lot, but not quite as much as we love taking Christmas off and spending some time with our families far away from O'Dark Central. So we've pre-loaded this holiday greeting as our way of saying "Mery Christmas and...
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So it turns out the world didn't end this morning, even though lots of dimwits on the iterwebs told us it would. That's good news overall, I guess, but it also means that now we've got to slap together a podcast at the last minute. Luckily, we've got some cool audio biz lying around.
This one is...
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with the late General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Davis was an aviation pioneer; he was one of the most famous
Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. However, his...
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