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 the Roosevelt Institution. He serves on the Advisory Council of Represent.Us, a nonpartisan anti-corruption organization. Penniman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he attended the St. Louis Country Day School. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1992 with a degree in philosophy. While there, he served on the student senate, was an adviser to the board of trustees, and started multiple student groups. His father, Nicholas G. Penniman IV, was publisher of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and a senior executive with Pulitzer, Inc. Nick Penniman Nick Penniman is the co-founder and CEO of Issue One, an American nonprofit