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A Discussion About Sojourner Truth & Frederick Douglass (Part 1)

Featuring Lynnette Barber & Nathan Richardson

In this week's Michael Eure Show, participate with Lynnette Barber and Nathan Richardson for a live discussion focusing on Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. You will also get to view a teaser of dramatic re-enactment footage before Truth and Douglass return for Part II next week.

Published on:Nov. 24, 2020

Episode Guests

Lynette Barber

Lynette Barber is an actor, singer, musician, and teacher who has done several reenactments of Sojourner Truth to tell her story.

Nathan Richardson

Nathan M. Richardson is a published author, performance poet and Frederick Douglass Historian. His poetry collections include "Likeness of Being", "Twenty-one Imaginary T-shirts" and "Voices from the Wombs of Wisdom." He is now in the sixth year of The Frederick Douglass Speaking Tour, a living history performance in which he captures completely the physical and spiritual essence of writer, orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved person.

Episode Notes

This episode was streamed July 16, 2020.