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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And her husband, Claude Barnett, Pan-Africanist, who was founder of the Associated Negro Press.
In their home, literally,
was clothing and furniture and rare books and artwork that demonstrated the fineness of their lives.
But as I approached one room, I looked to my side and I saw something I should not have seen there.
There were family photographs
and letters and scrapbooks.
As the estate seller yelled out, cash and carry, I told her, you can't do that, not with this.
A local university had offered $3,000 for the entire collection.
I told her, please give it to me.
Honestly, I'll take it and preserve it.
These are family heirlooms.
She told me it would be a quarter of a million dollars.
A quarter of a million dollars?
I don't have that!
I bought the little I could.
But that priceless, intact, one-of-a-kind collection from that day forth,
of rich black history, 100 years of rich black history was henceforth scattered to the wind.
The same thing happened at the estate sale of poet Maya Angelou.
And if that does not resonate with you, then I want you to think forward at the state sale of young poet laureate Amanda Gorman, that her writings and her poetry would suffer a similar fate.
We have in this country already lost a lot of the 17th, 18th, and 19th century documentation of the African American experience.
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