A Tribute to Beah Richards on the Anniversary of the Release of 'Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner'
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
5.0 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. |
| 0:10.9 | I am Karen Hunter, and today is December 12th. |
| 0:14.6 | Today is December 12th, literally the anniversary of the hit movie, Guess Who's Coming to |
| 0:20.4 | Dinner. |
| 0:21.0 | It released on this day in 1967, and it was groundbreaking, not just because Catherine Hepburn |
| 0:27.9 | and Spencer Tracy were in it, but Sidney Poitier was brought home to a white household |
| 0:35.4 | as the love interest, And it was stunning. Now, Bea Richards was in this |
| 0:45.8 | as well. She played the mother of Sidney Poitier. There's an exchange in this. His name is John |
| 0:51.9 | Prentice. And I took the opportunity. |
| 0:54.8 | I was watching a documentary on B.R. Richards and immediately texted Dr. Gray Carr. And I said, hey, what do you know about Bia Richards? He was like, well, you know, we've talked about her in class with Carr. I said, I know, I know. But can we get on and talk about her? Talk about her? because in this documentary, they talk about, |
| 1:12.4 | guess who's coming to dinner? |
| 1:13.5 | And they talk about her, talk about her, because in this documentary, they talk about |
| 1:12.1 | guess who's coming to dinner and they talk about the power beer riches. |
| 1:15.8 | I did not know how much of a poet she was, but also an activist, also somebody putting |
| 1:21.4 | everything on the line to fight for our rights and freedoms. |
| 1:24.4 | And I love this woman. |
| 1:26.4 | I want her to be immortalized here. Please share this |
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| 1:37.3 | It's also those of you who are members of Nubia, which you can only get to through narrative. |
| 1:42.7 | So narrative with a K, the K is silent. |
| 1:45.2 | Narrative K in front of N-A-R-R-A-T-I-V-E. Narrative.com is where you can reach us. |
| 1:51.4 | But we have something called You Should Know. So this is also living there. If you're a member of |
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