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Cleveland Adult Entertainment: OSU professor’s jazz CD celebrates triumph over drug addiction and more

Posted in Cleveland adult entertainment by clevelandconfidential on the July 24, 2010

Amazingly, her baby girl – her second child – was born healthy, providing motivation enough for her to ditch drugs and alcohol for good and to abandon a turbulent past littered with abusive men and scores of jail stints for prostitution.
Richardson did more than get clean.
At 36, she earned a doctorate in English from Michigan State University. She later wrote two books, and co-edited three others, on academic studies of American black-language patterns. She taught for nine years at Penn State University, taking a tenured position in 2007 to teach literacy studies in the College of Education at Ohio State University.
“She had a spark, … (and was) imaginative, funny – a leader,” said Ted Lardner, an English professor at Cleveland State University who served as Richardson’s thesis adviser during her graduate studies in the early 1990s. “If Zora Neale Hurston had a goddaughter, she could be Elaine – a deep student of life, studying it up close and unguarded.”

Yet her life had become chaotic after a string of violent boyfriends and a rape at age 13 that led the confused eighth-grader into occasional prostitution.

See the full article from “Columbus Dispatch”





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