Episode 22: Sojourner Truth & Frederick Douglass
Featuring Lynnette Barber and 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 2 next week.
Episode Guests
Lynette Barber is an actor, singer, musician and teacher who has done several re-enactments of Sojourner Truth to tell her story.
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."
Richardson is now in the sixth year of The Frederick Douglass Speaking Tour, where he captures 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.
