Episode 5: The Body

Blindspot by The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios

Jun 25, 202100:31:39Society & Culture

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 g...

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