The baby slid out of his mother's womb. The midwife caught it and immediately a shiver

went through her. A translucent veil covered the baby's face. The energy in the room shifted.

A powerful, spiritual leader had just been born. This is Two Minute Black History,

what you didn't learn in school.

Breathing through labor pains, she let out a guttural scream.

The midwife caught the baby and gassed. There was a thin, slimy veil covering the baby's face.

The midwife knew a future powerful leader had just been born.

Call is a thin layer of tissues surrounding the fetus in the womb.

Drawing from traditional African medicine, many enslaved southern midwives viewed call bursts

when the baby is born with the call intact. As sacred, it was believed these babies had immense spiritual powers

and would become great leaders within their community.

Unfortunately, anti-blackness used Western medicine and shame throughout colonization and enslavement

to strip the sacred from our ancestors traditional medicine.

A major example of this now is how inhumane Western medicine treats black expecting parents

during their pregnancy and labor experiences.

According to the CDC, black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause

than white women. They also state that 80% of America's pregnancy-related deaths are preventable.

This means that for many black women with pregnancy-related deaths, their cause of death is medical racism.

Nothing sacred about that. What can we do to reclaim our traditional medicinal practices?

It's our right to keep birthing experiences sacred.

We're literally birthing the next generation of freedom fighters.

In order to move towards the future, you've got to look to the past.

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