Julieanna L. Richardson
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226 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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Armed Forces, but unfortunately, most people only know of the Tuskegee Airmen.
We have such an opportunity to make change.
Our crews have traveled to 413 cities and towns across the United States.
Our collection is housed permanently in the Library of Congress.
Our digital archive, thanks to the computer geniuses at Carnegie Mellon, is now accessible worldwide, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on all kinds of portable devices and computers and phones.
We have interviewed, as I said, thousands of African American leaders.
There's Alonzo Petty, the oldest living black cowboy, Katherine Dunham, the inventor of black dance, Katherine Johnson, the NASA scientist whose story was portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures, poets Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez, and Ursula Burns, the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
We are now the digital repository for the Black experience, and it will include those digitized copies of the family heirlooms that I spoke of us losing.
When I think back on my fourth-grade self, I have such compassion for her.
A little Black girl in a sea of white faces in rural Ohio,
Little did she know that Black history was all around her.
Yards from her home was the first Black school built for Black children by a man named Shackelford, who sat at gunpoint, daring any white mob to tear down his school for Black children.
Her hometown
of Newark, Ohio, was also the 1815 birthplace for Edward James Roy, who had tired of life in America and migrated back to Africa.
And in 1870, he had become the fifth president of the African country of Liberia.
What if she had known that being president of a country would be possible for someone who looked like her?
What if her classmates had known that history and that would have changed their views and their world experience?
You all know that I'm that little girl.
And when I had spoken to General Powell, he told me that no one can change their yesterdays, but all of us can change our tomorrows.
I ask you today to join with me in a changing America's tomorrows so that the black community and its experience and its history will have an undeniable place and permanent place in this great country and in America's lexicon.
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