A Tribute To Alex Haley

KUT 90.5 | By John L. Hanson Jr.

Published January 31, 2018 at 7:00 AM CST

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents a tribute to the late Alexander Murray Palmer Haley. Haley’s quest to learn more about his family history resulted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

Haley talks about researching the stories he heard from his grandmother, life in the U.S. Coast Guard, writing the autobiography ofMalcolm X and the TV mini-seriesRoots.

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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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