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Annette John-Hall
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Annette John-Hall retired in 2021 from WHYY, the NPR member station in Philadelphia, where she hosted and produced “Real Black History,” a podcast about issues affecting Black people in the Philadelphia region, and “The Why,” a podcast about locally trending news stories.
Prior to her time as a broadcast journalist, John-Hall spent over 30 years as a print journalist in Oakland, Denver, San Jose and Philadelphia, where she was an award-winning metro columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She holds a journalism degree from San Francisco State University.
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