Blindspot podcast artwork
History

Blindspot

by The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios
HistorySociety & CultureDocumentary

Today: #198 in History on our combined chart.

Share this ranking Is this your show? Claim it
Listen on Apple PodcastsRSS feed

Chart positions today

History
#198 New on this chart
#191 Pulse 4

If you like Blindspot, try…

Ranking history

Position on the History combined chart over the last 30 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better; #1 is at the top.

#1#50#100#150#200Chart rankOct 4Oct 5#198
View as table
DateCombined RankApple Podcasts
Oct 5#198#191
Oct 4—#195

About the show

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.

Latest episodes

  • There Was Love Here

    February 22, 2024 · 38 min

    In this final episode, we turn to people living with HIV today — longtime survivors of a plague who, despite their pain, frustrations and desires to just be done with it, realize they can’t be done with it. These are people like Kia…

  • What If I Could Have Grown Old With My Brother?

    February 15, 2024 · 40 min

    In 1985, doctors at a methadone clinic in the South Bronx made the harrowing discovery: 50 percent of its patients had HIV. Three years later, in the same neighborhood, a pair of epidemiologists estimated that as many as one in five young…

  • Respectability Politics and the AIDS Crisis

    February 8, 2024 · 48 min

    By 1986, almost 40 percent of people diagnosed with AIDS in the United States were either Black or Latino. As the full contours of the crisis became apparent, a group of Black gay men began to organize in cities across the country…

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

    February 1, 2024 · 44 min

    From the very earliest days of the epidemic, women got infected with HIV and died from AIDS — just like men. But from the earliest days, this undeniable fact was largely ignored — by the public, the government and even the medical…

  • If I Didn't Have HIV, I Wouldn't Have Met You

    January 25, 2024 · 39 min

    It’s the 1980s — Harlem, USA — and the 17th floor of the area’s struggling public hospital is filling up with infants and children who arrive and then never leave. Some spend their whole lives on the pediatric ward, celebrating birthdays…

  • Mourning in America

    January 18, 2024 · 35 min

    Valerie Reyes-Jimenez called it “The Monster.” That’s how some people described HIV and AIDS in the 1980s. Valerie thinks as many as 75 people from her block on New York City’s Lower East Side died. They were succumbing to an illness that…

  • Introducing Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows

    January 11, 2024 · 4 min

    In 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…

  • Episode 5: The Body

    June 25, 2021 · 32 min

    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…