This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence.
Ignored, erased, silenced… But Greenwood’s trauma from 1921 persists. Resmaa Menakem — a therapist and expert on healing from conflict and violence — explains how generations of people pass down the experiences of historical events, and how racialized trauma affects us all, no matter our skin color. He and KalaLea ask, how might healing happen for the descendants of survivors and perpetrators of the massacre?

Episode 5: The Body

HIV and AIDS changed the United States and the world. In this series, we reveal untold stories from the defining years of the epidemic, and we’ll consider: How could some of the pain have been avoided? Most crucial of all, what lessons can we still learn from it today? Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORYⓇ Channel and WNYC Studios.

Society & Culture

Personal Journals

History

Philosophy

Places & Travel

Documentary

The challenge of living and aging with HIV.

There Was Love Here

How one woman refused to accept the status quo and helped save the lives of thousands of people in her neighborhood.

What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?

Why it took the Black community so long to respond to the AIDS crisis.

Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis

The story of how a group of women changed the very definition of AIDS.

'Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It'

Stories from Harlem Hospital’s pediatric AIDS ward.

Episode 5: The Body

Download our free app to listen on your phone