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led movements and/or organizations; and to preserve this material for years and generations to come, creating a priceless collection of 15,00020,000 of recorded African American testimony. It was during her studies at Brandeis that she first experienced the power of oral history, while conducting independent research on the Harlem Renaissance. While exploring the collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, Richardson interviewed Butterfly McQueen and Leigh Whipper as part of her project. Having access to these poignant life stories “made history really come alive for me,” says Richardson. “It is important that everyone has a sense of their own legacy.” From this early exposure, the seeds for The HistoryMakers project first took root. Richardson received her J.D. degree in 1980 from Harvard Law School and began her career as a corporate lawyer at the law firm of Jenner & Block prior to serving in the early 1980s as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago’s Office of Cable Communications. There, she established the Chicago Cable Commission, the City’s regulatory body. She went on to create Shop Chicago, a regionally-based home shopping channel. She then started her own production company, SCTN Teleproductions. For eight years, she managed three local cable channels for TCI, then the nation’s largest cable operator, and served as the local production arm for C-SPAN. Richardson has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards. She currently sits on the Honors Council of Lawyers for the Creative Arts and was appointed in 2011 to the Comcast NBC Universal African American Diversity Council. Richardson also sits on the Honors Council of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, and in 2011 was appointed to the Comcast NBC Universal African American Diversity Council. In 2012, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in the Humanities by Howard University; and in 2014, she served as the commencement speaker for Dominican University who also awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in the Humanities. In 2014, Black Enterprise Magazine awarded Richardson the 2014 Legacy Award, its highest recognition of women’s achievement. That same year, Richardson was profiled in “American Masters: The Boomer List,” a PBS documentary and exhibition at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., shot and directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. In 2016, Richardson delivered Brandeis University’s 65th Commencement address and also received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters. That same year, Richardson received the Pioneer Award at the 27th Annual Heroes and Legends Awards in Los Angeles, California. She was one of eight honored during the world premiere of HistoryMaker and artist Jonathan Green’s Requiem for Rice - a musical tribute to honor and recognize posthumously the scores of enslaved Africans upon whom the infrastructure of the United States was built and who were buried throughout the Lowcountry and across the United States without being recognized as citizens.
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For more than four decades Michael House has worked in advertising, marketing, politics, print and broadcast communications. Three years ago, House was handpicked to head the entire operations of the “World’s Greatest Weekly,” the 106-year-old Chicago Defender. It was an offer he couldn’t refuse.
His vision was to create an integrated platform that includes events marketing, traditional print advertising and web, while publishing the Best Black Newspaper in America. The Cleveland, Ohio native saw the fruits of his labor when the Chicago Defender received the John B. Russwurm Award in 2009 from the National Newspaper Publishers Association as the “Best Black Newspaper in America,” in addition to several other awards the newspaper received at their annual convention. He was also instrumental in moving the newspaper back in the community it started, Bronzeville. Less than two years after his arrival, the Chicago Defender moved back into the community. Prior to coming to Chicago, House spent many years working in advertising and sales at Ford Motor Co., Mobile Oil Corp., Rockwell International, Ebony magazine and as the president of Amalgamated Publishers Inc. in New York. At Amalgamated, he was in charge of placing national advertising in the country’s more than 200 black newspapers. He then returned to Cleveland and served as the press secretary and spokesman for Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, oversaw the city’s public access television station, and became president and chief operating officer of the Call & Post Newspaper Group, which publishes weekly editions in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and a statewide edition. During his time at the Call & Post, House was recognized by the NNPA for his leadership at newspaper group. He was named Publisher of the Year for 2003-2004. House is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., a Prince Hall Shriners 33rd Degree Mason and chairman of the NNPA’s Marketing and Advertising Committee. He received his bachelor’s degree from Howard University and earned his MBA from Baruch College-City University of New York. House and his wife Doris have four children and several grandchildren.
Today, Richardson’s passion for uncovering and sharing this treasury of rich and wonderful American stories is undiminished and will leave a unique and lasting legacy for generations to come.
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Over the past 13 years, The HistoryMakers grew into a vibrant national initiative. Its signature programs include The HistoryMakers Education Institute, Back to School With The HistoryMakers, The HistoryMakers Speakers Bureau and “The HistoryMakers An Evening With…” PBS-TV series and fundraisers that have featured such notables as Harry Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Dionne Warwick, General Colin Powell, Earl Graves, Nikki Giovanni, Earl Graves, Sr., Smokey Robinson, Della Reese, Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee, B.B. King, Russell Simmons, Denyce Graves, Quincy Jones and Eartha Kitt, Smokey Robinson, Valerie Simpson, Berry Gordy, John Rogers, Jr., Ursula Burns, Vernon Jordan, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder and Franklin Thomas.
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