OTHERtone / Michael Harriot / Sony Music Entertainment
18 episodes
9 months ago
From Dean of Black Twitter, Michael Harriot, comes a Black history podcast like you've never heard before. Using a recipe that includes detailed research, barbershop humor and a little seasoned salt, a parade of cookout-certified celebrity guests helps Michael Harriot serve up a compelling, hilarious and more accurate version of Black history that was conveniently whitewashed from your social studies book.
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From Dean of Black Twitter, Michael Harriot, comes a Black history podcast like you've never heard before. Using a recipe that includes detailed research, barbershop humor and a little seasoned salt, a parade of cookout-certified celebrity guests helps Michael Harriot serve up a compelling, hilarious and more accurate version of Black history that was conveniently whitewashed from your social studies book.
Onesimus & The Great Vaccine Debate (featuring Damon Young and J-L Cauvin)
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History
30 minutes
2 years ago
Onesimus & The Great Vaccine Debate (featuring Damon Young and J-L Cauvin)
In the midst of disease and death in the colonies, an enslaved man named Onesimus introduces America to the smallpox vaccine. But much like today, the concept of a vaccine sparked skepticism, concern, counter protests and rumors that the enslaved were trying to kill off white people.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode featured: Damon Young as Onesimus and J-L Cauvin as Cotton Mather and James Franklin
Special thanks to our voice actors
Reporter Andrea O’Brien Vives
Slave TicTok1 Moses Soyoola
Slave Tick Tok 2 Timil Jones
Slave Tick Tok 3 Jason Vives
Dr. Kizzmkia Corbett Sabrina Harvey Merritt
Ad Lib 1 Avron Roberts
Voice Susan Haynes
Voice Christopher Toppino
Voice Magnolia McKay
Ad lib 3 Gillianne Roberts-Atkinson
Executive Producers Pharrell Williams, Scott Vener, Noleca Radway, and Moses Soyoola
Senior Producer Janicia Francis
Managing Producer JoAnn DeLuna
Production Coordinator Homero Radway
Production Assistant Gilianne Roberts-Atkinson
Head Writer Silas Miami
Writers Roderick Morrow, Danielle Solomon
Audio Engineer Marcellino van Callias
Fact checker LaPorsche Thomas
Music Supervisor Patricia Kihoro
Theme Song Freedom by Pharell Williams
This episode includes the songs “Demasked” and “Epicio” by Kevin servHis , “Thang Thang” by Tina Mina, ‘Tickety Tok’ by The New Fools, ‘Honourable Salute’ by Sage Oursler and music by Chad Milner.
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Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History
From Dean of Black Twitter, Michael Harriot, comes a Black history podcast like you've never heard before. Using a recipe that includes detailed research, barbershop humor and a little seasoned salt, a parade of cookout-certified celebrity guests helps Michael Harriot serve up a compelling, hilarious and more accurate version of Black history that was conveniently whitewashed from your social studies book.
