Introducing Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows, a podcast series that tells stories from the early days of AIDS and the people who refused to stay out of sight.

In this season of Blindspot, 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. HIV and AIDs had arrived. And it wasn’t just gay men who were getting sick.

Hosted by Kai Wright from Notes from America, 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.

• Subscribe and listen to Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows wherever you get podcasts: https://bit.ly/3SrYt7s
• Listen to the full episodes of Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows on YouTube: https://bit.ly/47GhQxY
• Subscribe to see and hear more from WNYC on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3mzLqA4
• Like this video and leave us a comment!

Follow WNYC on social:
• X (Twitter):   / wnyc  
• Instagram:   / wnyc  
• Facebook:   / wnyc  
• Threads: https://www.threads.net/@wnyc

Blindspot is a co-production of The ‪@HISTORY‬ Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with ‪@thenation‬ Magazine.