Little Richard shatter racial divisions in the music industry. Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. He was the third of twelve children of Leva Mae (née Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman. His father was a church deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub, the Tip In Inn. His mother was a member of Macon's New Hope Baptist Church. Initially, Little Richard's first name was supposed to have been "Ricardo" but an error resulted in "Richard" instead. The Penniman children were raised in a neighborhood of Macon called Pleasant Hill.
Nick Penniman Nick Penniman Nick Penniman is the co-founder and CEO of Issue One, an American nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen American democracy and government ethics. Previously, Penniman was executive director of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, which he founded with Arianna Huffington in 2009. Supported by large foundations and The Huffington Post, the operation established a multi-media newsroom of journalists. It was profiled in media publications, including the "American Journalism Review" and the "Columbia Journalism Review". In 2011, it merged with the Center for Public Integrity. Penniman founded the American News Project, an early experiment into online video journalism