Blindspot

Episode 5: The Body

<p>This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence.</p>
<p>Ignored, erased, silenced… But Greenwood’s trauma from 1921 persists. <a href="https://www.resmaa.com/">Resmaa Menakem</a> — 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? </p>

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.