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Michael Hurd On Texas Black High School Football

KUT 90.5 | By John L. Hanson Jr.
Published December 20, 2017 at 5:37 PM CST
Taylor Johnson

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Michael Hurd, director for the Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture at Prairie View A&M University and author of Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas.

Hurd talks Prairie View Interscholastic League, black high school football in Texas, and the players who made their way into the National Football League and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Life & Arts In Black AmericaTexas High School Football HistoryPrairie View Interscholastic League
John L. Hanson Jr.
John L. Hanson is the producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio series In Black America. It’s heard on home station KUT at 10 p.m. Tuesdays and 6:30 a.m. Sundays — and weekly on close to 20 stations across the country. The weekly podcast of IBA, the only nationally broadcast Black-oriented public affairs radio program, is one of KUT’s most popular podcasts.
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