Black history video archives: The HistoryMakers project collects stories from the likes of Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, and Quincy Jones.
SlateMany of us are planning a post-pandemic summer full of fun, travel, and catching up with our families. She’s the founder and president of The HistoryMakers, a project devoted to creating a video archive of notable Black Americans, with thousands of interviews already. On Friday’s episode of A Word, I spoke with Richardson about the HistoryMakers project and whether the pandemic has given her a greater sense of urgency about her work. During your conversation, he said, “I think by the time I was an adolescent and had moved back from Indonesia and was struggling with these issues of racial identity and the father not being in the house, I reacted by engaging in a lot of behavior that’s not untypical of Black males across the country.” What made you want to interview this Barack Obama guy? But after he also had written his book, and you know, and I would say I’ve listened to the interview and it’s remarkably consistent to the person we see today.
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