Introducing Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows
11 January - 3 minsIn this season of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, we travel back to a pivotal moment in the history of this country, and we trace how, decades before Covid-19, a virus tore through some of our most vulnerable communities while the wider world looked away. We go to a pediatric ward in Harlem, a women’s prison in upstate New York, a drug market in the South Bronx, and the inner sanctum of the National Institutes of Health. And we meet people who demanded that they, and their illness, be seen: mothers and children, doctors and nurses, nuns and sex workers, and a woman who literally helped change the definition of AIDS.
The first episode comes out on Jan. 18.
Blindspot is a co-production...
Series Episodes
What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?
How one woman refused to accept the status quo and helped save the lives of thousands of people in her neighborhood.
39 mins
15 February Finished
Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis
Why it took the Black community so long to respond to the AIDS crisis.
47 mins
8 February Finished
'Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It'
The story of how a group of women changed the very definition of AIDS.
44 mins
1 February Finished
If I Didn't Have HIV, I Wouldn't Have Met You
Stories from Harlem Hospital’s pediatric AIDS ward.
39 mins
25 January Finished
