Julieanna L. Richardson
speaker
226 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Julieanna L. Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We can ill afford to lose the 20th and the 21st century.
Preservation will determine if the black community is viewed as valueless or valuable.
Consider 17-year-old Darnella Frazier and that nine minutes and 29 second recording of George Floyd's murder.
and the complete disregard that it showed society having of Black life.
We in the Black community have always had value.
It's just been hidden from view, not well documented.
Over 20 years ago, I sat at my dining room table.
I was unemployed.
no kids, and single.
And you get to the point in your life when you start asking, what will be your leave behind, your legacy?
And those stories of my sophomore year came back to me.
I took my love of the theater,
my degree in American studies, my legal training from Harvard Law School, and I set out to create the nation's largest African-American video oral history archive.
It's called The History Makers, and back then, lots of people had thought I had lost my mind.
But we've interviewed thousands and thousands of African American leaders.
One early interview was of civil rights leader Julian Bond.
Chairman of the NAACP, he had been one of the student leaders for SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
At the tender age of 25, he had been elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.
Georgia being Georgia, then and now, and there being no Stacey Abrams in sight, they refused to seat him.
And his case went up to the US Supreme Court.
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