A lie doesn't care who tells it, and old saying goes, but sometimes it's exactly who's

telling the lie that makes it so powerful.

And this man had a solution to fighting against the lies often told about us.

This is Two Minute Black History, what you didn't learn in school.

Joseph Richardson Jones knew would be power of words.

Most of the words around him said that our people were inferior to whites.

Of course, he knew this was a lie.

But he also knew something else that motivated him to fight the lies, which was that black

people believed them too.

We've been treated like trash by white people in power for generation, and they never

seemed to face any consequence.

So it was no wonder some of us believed the brainwashing, but Jones knew how to uplift

our people.

As a writer, actor, journalist, and filmmaker, his work highlighted black excellence and

our struggle for freedom.

He wrote important stories in one of the largest black newspapers of the day, the Atlanta

Daily World, but his most influential work was yet to come.

During the Civil Rights Movement, Jones's pictures, films, and writing helped black people

embrace the fact that black inferiority is a lie.

He showed just how much racism affected our everyday lives.

He showed white people across the nation that their peers were capable of horrible crime.

Jones taught us a critical lesson that's still relevant today.

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