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Remembering Damon J. Keith, Judge On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents a 2015 interview with Peter Hammer, professor of law at Wayne State University and co-author of Crusader For Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith.

Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Keith died in April at 96.  

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.