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Black History in Two Minutes or so
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Black History in Two Minutes (or so) is the new way to immerse yourself in Black History. The digital video series features dozens of short, engaging and factually accurate videos about important historical events or people who have shaped American history. Like never before, people of all ages, backgrounds and educational levels can learn more about the African American experience.
Launched in 2019 by visionary Executive Producer Robert F. Smith, who is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, the media platform has covered topics from the beginning of American history to the present day. To ensure historical accuracy, the episodes are well researched and narrated by renowned historian and Executive Producer, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
As an award-winning series, Black History in Two Minutes has received numerous accolades, including four Webby Awards.
Launched in 2019 by visionary Executive Producer Robert F. Smith, who is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, the media platform has covered topics from the beginning of American history to the present day. To ensure historical accuracy, the episodes are well researched and narrated by renowned historian and Executive Producer, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
As an award-winning series, Black History in Two Minutes has received numerous accolades, including four Webby Awards.
Onesimus
One vital but less-known story from early America is that of Onesimus, an African man enslaved in the colonies who helped change the shape of American medicine.
Infectious disease outbreaks were a too-familiar nightmare for the colonists - and in 1721, a particularly serious smallpox epidemic was ravaging Boston. Before knowledge of inoculation had spread to these shores, the practice was well-known in West Africa - and it was none other than Onesimus who first shared this life-changing method of prevention.
In this episode of Black History in Two Minutes (or so) hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - with additional commentary from Margot Minardi of Reed College and Ted Widmer of Macaulay Honors College CUNY - we explore the surprising origins of American inoculation.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Robert Smith
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Dyllan McGee
SERIES PRODUCER
Kelsi Lindus
PRODUCERS
Chelsea Adewunmi
Oluwaseun Babalola
Kevin Burke
Megan Graham
Vashni Korin
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Robert L. Yacyshyn
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Ashley Thomas
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Veronica Leib
POST PRODUCTION MANAGER
Katherine Swiatek
WRITTEN BY
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY
Matthew Head
ADDITIONAL WRITING
Kevin Burke
SERIES EDITOR
Reena Mangubat
EDITORS
Cierra Pacheco
Liza Renzulli
Anne Yao
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Ben Pakman
Patrice Bowman
Imani Dean
SUPERVISING PRODUCERS
Will Ventura
Sara Wolitzky
ARCHIVAL PRODUCERS
Megan Graham
Jade Edwards-Lovell
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Seng Chen
Gregory Brutus
Nausheen Dadabhoy
Archival Materials Courtesy of:
Alamy Images
Getty Images
Library of Congress
Pond5
The Maryland Gazette
Special Thanks
Jorge Felipe
Amy Gosdanian
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Romilla Karnick
Margot MinardiJohn Thornton
Marial Iglesias Utset
Sara Wicht
Ted Widmer
Abby Wolf
Infectious disease outbreaks were a too-familiar nightmare for the colonists - and in 1721, a particularly serious smallpox epidemic was ravaging Boston. Before knowledge of inoculation had spread to these shores, the practice was well-known in West Africa - and it was none other than Onesimus who first shared this life-changing method of prevention.
In this episode of Black History in Two Minutes (or so) hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - with additional commentary from Margot Minardi of Reed College and Ted Widmer of Macaulay Honors College CUNY - we explore the surprising origins of American inoculation.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Robert Smith
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Dyllan McGee
SERIES PRODUCER
Kelsi Lindus
PRODUCERS
Chelsea Adewunmi
Oluwaseun Babalola
Kevin Burke
Megan Graham
Vashni Korin
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Robert L. Yacyshyn
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Ashley Thomas
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Veronica Leib
POST PRODUCTION MANAGER
Katherine Swiatek
WRITTEN BY
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSED BY
Matthew Head
ADDITIONAL WRITING
Kevin Burke
SERIES EDITOR
Reena Mangubat
EDITORS
Cierra Pacheco
Liza Renzulli
Anne Yao
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Ben Pakman
Patrice Bowman
Imani Dean
SUPERVISING PRODUCERS
Will Ventura
Sara Wolitzky
ARCHIVAL PRODUCERS
Megan Graham
Jade Edwards-Lovell
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Seng Chen
Gregory Brutus
Nausheen Dadabhoy
Archival Materials Courtesy of:
Alamy Images
Getty Images
Library of Congress
Pond5
The Maryland Gazette
Special Thanks
Jorge Felipe
Amy Gosdanian
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Romilla Karnick
Margot MinardiJohn Thornton
Marial Iglesias Utset
Sara Wicht
Ted Widmer
Abby Wolf
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Back in the day, this made sense. Today, it's racist. If a group of white people did the same thing they would be accused of racism. Theres no rights in America today that white people have and black dont. But white people surely dont get affirmative action or reparations LOL..Real equality means no affirmative action.
Samething is happening to white men... And these were thugs that were committeing crimes but boo hoo their victums bc their black
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Dr. King's implausible violence-begets-violence premise compounded his ulterior motive of domestic terrorism against my kind. His eroticism edict is pointedly violent towards unassimilable biracial people in particular. This in turn denotes an inherent lack of self-respect on whites' part. Yet they are so pompous as to think themselves inviolable.
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Why you don’t mention that puerto ricans and brasilians helped to build hiphop
Any religion or movement that seeks to classify people according to skin color and use that to divide them is fundamentally incorrect and a complete abomination. A world of peace cannot emerge by using racism to try and fight racism. You cannot fight oppression with more oppression. There is only one race.
Members of the NOI slained Malcolm X 😂😂😂😂😂 you mean the fbi and nypd slain him.
The Watts Prophets were the first to use the word rap in their 1971 album and title composition Rappin' Black in a White World, and their hard-hitting 1969 album Black Voices: On the Streets of Watts was named one of the top 40 ground- breaking albums of all-time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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Thanks Johnson smh
Women Laborers
Thank you 😊 🙏 💓 ☺️
Jamaican here. Disco King Mario was Throwing "jams" with B-Boys (Bronxdale Boys) dancing in the schoolyards of Bronxdale when young Herc was just a fan carrying Mario's record crates. Stop the lies.
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Its no secret that he was a Freemason. One get informed about Freemasonry and understands who he was. Book References: Freemasonry by Leon de Poncins./// A Study in American Freemasonry by Arthur Preuss./// The Occult War by Leon de Poncins.///
No one cares if he was gay. He was racist, elitist. Baldwin was beyond eloquent. His voice, the myriad of valid points he made - he annihilated buckley (pompous ass)
❤ this great black leader who Founded a black college. Dr.tyrone Williams of Chester PA
This sum b.s
Like many others in the comments, I stumbled upon this video while doing homework. However, I must admit that it is one of the most inspirational videos I have ever seen.
Rap is talking rythmically in time to music, hip hop is using a looped section of another piece of music to create a backing track, they are not the same thing or interchangable terms. Rap is much deeper, more diverse and started much earlier
Lies. Cubsn domnicans Puerto Rican only NYC blacks created hip hop..brinx created zero hip hop from nyc not bronx. Go watch fort apache the bronx no hip hop just lies
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7 million dollars doesn’t bring you baby back 😭
August 11th, and I was born August 11th 1962
Can't take anything.Henry Lewis Gates say seriously because obviously he doesn't do his research.
Wow!!! Well done Spain, amazing video. I didn't know about this.This should be taught at school throughout all the US but I guess it won't be done cause there's no interest in talking good things about other country and recognize they did much better than the british or the US.
Whos here after rogan 😂
If consider recruitment or involvement with USA military, then regard betrayal, disparity, injuries, injustice, civil, criminal, & human rights violations happening that are suppressed from exposure ... There are risk, hazard, danger, & harm among human rights violations with atrocity happening among medical, health, & hospital in USA especially amid Veterans Exploitation Industrial Complex. Beside banal, irresponsible, & neglectful there are immoral, negligent, malevolent, & outright evil people among conniving intrusive parasitic NGOs, malfeasance, kleptocracy, & systemic corruption characterize deteriorated social institutions in USA that betray, coverup, obstruct, reprisal & retaliate, further endanger, harm, & violate happening amid Veterans Exploitation Industrial Complex from California to Ohio, San Diego to Chillicothe, Columbus, Lancaster, et al ridden with risk, hazard, harm, corruption, & violations. Advise beware & avoid all Veterans Admin/Affairs facilities along with Ohio Health (especially Columbus & Circleville OH locations) among others comprising that awful abusive dangerous network, since systemic corruption from federal to state, county, & city beside expressly promote & indulge anti-white male bias, discrimination, prejudice, & malicious racist-hate motivated incidents of assault & battery, with willfully inflict injury & trauma, abduction, torture, physical assault & battery, sexual assault & rape, fraud, slander, persecution, terrorism, bribery, malfeasance, collusion & complicit involvement among violations happening that get suppressed from exposure much less investigate, charge, pursue due process, & accountability else upon report then risk further harm from reprisal & retaliation while outright evil people are indulged to further harm & violate innocent people especially target military retirees & veterans with those characterizations mentioned.
Rest in peace Willie Mays
This is unfortunate and awesome at the same time. Segregation was horrible. End racism ✌️ (unfortunate that they had to make a separate league due to racism) (awesome that they were able to make a separate league because of racism)
Why is it acceptable to be black and proud but not white and proud?
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Fuck the naacp long live johnny rebel the white nation lives on
Stokley is not native-born American. He is actually an immigrant from Trinidad. Many black immigrants from the Caribbean assimilated and integrated to the local black American community.
Bro this is my favorite music genre!
My heart bleeds from seeing this. I’m praying for our black farmers and family’s eternally. God bless!
I just learned that South Carolina wouldn't stand for "Negro Soldiers" training in the state, for fighting in WW1. Isn't it fitting that today, South Carolina is still leading the charge as the most ignorant of all 50 states, by supporting a criminal for president, also from NY, merely because he's a racist. It's gonna be fun to watch y'all be on the wrong side of history, yet again.
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What goes around will eventually come around
Americans sicken me, and I am white(who was not considered as white before WW2).
Good on blacks , taking care of these whites
What else is new?
I grew up in fort Lee New Jersey and remember seeing clips from his films there he used the studios there for his work . Very interesting person .
Separation is the only solution, and Black Nationalism is the methodology. Do for self or suffer the consequences.
There should only be one power and that's the human power.
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Outstanding History!!!
Not just Black People were lynched.
Thank you, Dr. Gates. For shining a light on yet another area of African American life that has been kept out of our children’s everyday history books.🫡 (And this was only in one area of Sports. So much more to be acknowledged. In all Facets of American history.)