Anthony Brooks

And she told me that when she was in the third grade, she already knew, she was getting the sense there was something missing in her life.

But Juliana was smart.

She was ambitious.

She ends up going to Brandeis University outside of Boston.

And that's when she made a discovery that would eventually really change her life.

So she was studying the Harlem Renaissance when she came across this well-known song.

So, Aisha, you've heard this, right?

All right.

So, well, it's a well-known song from a while ago, and I forgive you for not hearing it because it is old, but it was a famous old song called Wild About Harry, famous Broadway tune that was a song about President Harry Truman.

Oh, okay.

But when Richardson learned that it was written by a pair of black songwriters, Noble Sissel and Yubi Blake, it absolutely blew her mind.

It thrilled her.

I mean, here's a woman who grew up without any sense of black history, of her history, beginning to discover it.

So that discovery inspires Richardson to record a series of interviews with a number of prominent black Americans for college, for this project.

But it would take a while for her to figure out what to do with all this.

And that's because her dad wanted her to be a lawyer.

There was a lot of pressure on her to go that route.

So after Brandeis, she went on to Harvard Law School.

She got a law degree and ends up landing a job at a corporate law firm in Chicago.

She was successful.