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Lower Manhattan Community ChurchSummers Psalms // Psalm 22 & 23Moses Soyoola explores Psalms 22 and 23, inviting us to consider what it truly means to have a shepherd who ensures we lack nothing. Have we understood abundance the way God intends? When our definitions fall short, what are the consequences? Through scripture and personal reflection, this sermon challenges us to bring our honest emotions before God, and clear the way to pray the Truth we find in His Word.2025-08-0300 min
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryThe Many Beefs of Ida B. Wells (featuring Georgia Me and Karen Morrow)Arguably, best investigative journalist of her time, 19th-century trailblazer, anti lynching champion and a force to be reckoned with. From her days in the Deep South to her fearless exposés, we’re bringing you into the battle rap ring with the one and only Ida B. Wells!
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media
This episode features:
Emailer 1 Janelle Brown
Ida Georgia Me
Special thanks to our voice actors:
MC/Dee Karen Mo...2023-11-0734 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryMaking Black AF History (featuring Pharrell Williams and John Legend)In this episode before the season finalé… Join Michael as he goes behind the scenes to meet the people who make the Drapetomaniax: Unshackled History podcast at the cast’s wrap party.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode features:
Pharrell Williams
John Legend
Michael Michael Harriot
Rod Rod Morrow
Noleca Blu Radway
Janicia Janicia Francis
JoAnn JoAnn DeLuna
Patricia Patricia Wangechi Kihoro
Danielle D...2023-10-3142 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryMary Ellen Pleasant: Black Capitalist (featuring Touré, Diamond Stylz, and Jody Simms)Can you name the 19th century Black woman entrepreneur who funded hundreds of Black people to flee from slavery? Mary Ellen Pleasant reported in 1875 a net worth of 30 million US dollars. Which today would be worth just shy of one billion dollars. Join the students at Drapetomaniax Agricultural and Technical State University School as they learn all about this self-made millionaire abolitionist.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode features:
Professor MX Fa Rizzle Diamond
Black Billion...2023-10-2437 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistorySister Rosetta Tharpe: The Woman Who Invented Rock & Roll (featuring Lynnée Denise and Reagan Gomez)Who really invented rock n roll? The facts are clear—it was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Black queer gospel-influenced rock and roll Beyoncé of the 1930s and ‘40s. Music legends like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash stole her musical style without proper acknowledgement or credit. In a renaissance of sound, celebrity and high drama we salute the legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode features:
Lynnée Lynnée Denise
Honey ...2023-10-1739 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryBoley, Oklahoma: A Black Town In The American West (featuring Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tiffany Cross, and OlaRonke Akinmowo)Have you heard about Boley, Oklahoma - the town that wished a motherfucker would? Boley was a thriving, black town founded by Abigail McCormick who had inherited the land where Boley was founded from her grandfather, a Creek Freedmen. This episode tells the story of how, in 1932, the entire town came together when a gang of white men decided to rob the bank because they thought it’d be easy. But they were in for a big surprise.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media...2023-10-0333 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryAfeni Shakur On Trial: How To Get Away With Drapetomania (featuring MeLa Machinko)In the midst of the Black Power movement of the 1960’s, the US government launched a campaign of terror against the Black Panther Party. In 1969, the NYPD raided the homes of multiple members. Twenty-one people (The Panther 21) were arrested, including Afeni Shakur. The young, expectant mother with no formal legal background, decided to act as her own counsel and represent herself during trial. Our very own Negro News Network reports on the astonishing trial of Afeni Shakur.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media
...2023-09-1935 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryRobert F. WIlliams and The Kissing Case (featuring Bob the Drag Queen)Live from the Drapetomaniax Library of Black History, in a special storytime episode, Michael is joined by Bob the Drag Queen to shed light on the harrowing tale of how civil rights leader and founder of the Black Armed Guard, Robert F. Williams, organized his city and galvanized the world to save two innocent children from a twenty-two year prison sentence.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode features:
Bob Bob the Drag Queen
2023-09-1234 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryThe Original 33: Why Everybody Ain’t Invited To The Cookout (featuring Roland Martin, Nina Hibbler Webster and Brian Forte)After the Civil War, so many newly freed African Americans registered to vote that Georgia elected 3 Black state senators and 30 Black state representatives. They were known as The Original 33. Southern white supremacists were so afraid when Black people exercised their right to vote that they started a race war. Representative Henry McNeal Turner aka DJ Freedman hosts this week's show live from the 1868 cookout that led to the Camilla Massacre.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media
This episode features:2023-09-0533 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryOnesimus & 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...2023-08-2930 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryDiaspora Wars Part 2: The FIRST First 48 Investigates (featuring Yvette Nicole Brown and Roderick Morrow)Last week we heard from the enslaved Louisiana rebels who secretly organized the largest revolt in U.S. history. In this episode Michael enlists the help of Investigator Helena Crane to cut through history's white lies and get to the Black ass truth of the rebellion. They discover how the plan was enacted, who else was there, and why violence was the goal of that bloody German Coast uprising of 1811.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode featured:2023-08-1536 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryDiaspora Wars Part 1: The Multicultural Revolt of 1811 (featuring W. Kamau Bell and Carvell Wallace)In 1811 after Haiti achieved the most successful slave revolt in history, the French were shook and their former colony of New Orleans was facing its own uprising. On the mainline with Black Heaven, Michael gets to the bottom of how a diverse population of Haitians, West Africans, and generational African-Americans secretly plotted and organized nearly 500 enslaved people to escape and kill their captors.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode featured:
Kwaku W. Kamau Bell
C...2023-08-0837 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryWho Was the First African American Part 2 (featuring Brandon Victor Dixon and Angelica Ross)Last week, Conquistador Juan Garrido helped Michael establish that Africans arrived in America as early as the 1500’s. But who was the first African American? This week we meet explorer Esteban The Moor (aka Black Steve), and a representative for The Collective of enslaved Africans who arrived and resisted.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode featured:
Spokesperson Angelica Ross
Voice of God Charlemagne tha God
Black Steve Brandon Victor Dixon
...2023-08-0141 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryWho Was the First African American Part 1 (featuring Panama Jackson and Charlamagne tha God)Africans set foot on “American soil” as early as the 1500’s. But who was the first African American? In this historical game show episode Michael Harriot hears out Conquistador Juan Garrido, Esteban the Moor, and a group of enslaved Africans who found themselves in South Carolina.
Thanks to our special guests, Angelica Ross, Brandon Victor Dixon, Panama Jackson and Charlamagne tha God
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OTHERtone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media
Executive Producers Pharrell Williams, Scott Vener, Noleca...2023-07-2532 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryCharley Case: The Original King of Comedy (featuring KevOnStage and Monét X Change)Humor in live performance has been around since the beginning of time. In the 1800s this kind of entertainment mostly showed up as live theater and minstrel shows filled with skits, costumes, singing, dancing, and yes, blackface. But performer Charley Case dared to do things differently. Without costume or props Charley Case simply stood there telling jokes and funny stories in the repeated cadence of a set-up, filler, and punchline - inventing what we now know as stand-up comedy.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OTHERtone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media
2023-07-1845 minDrapetomaniax: Unshackled HistoryThe Outlandish Forest Joe (featuring Roy Wood Jr. and Joy Reid)EP 1 - The Outlandish Forest Joe featuring Roy Wood Jr. and Joy Reid
The concept/definition of Drapetomania is introduced, which is a fictitious disease—devised by Dr. Samuel Adolphus Cartwright—that causes slaves to run away. We learn about Forest Joe, who escapes and gains a legendary reputation for evading capture. Joe creates the first known bullet proof vest. A group of vigilantes is created to hunt him and other escaped slaves, which evolves into modern day police associations.
Drapetomaniax is created by me, THE Michael Harriot. Drapetomaniax is a collaboration betw...2023-07-1134 min
Lower Manhattan Community ChurchPanel Discussion // Work, Wk. 6 of 6Ryan Holladay hosts a panel discussion with Dan Belmonte, Dan Faires, John Greenwood, Todd Komarnicki, Bethany Norvell, Moses Soyoola, and Jasmine Wood2015-05-2454 min