Mourning in America

Blindspot by The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios

Jan 18, 202400:35:08Society & Culture

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...

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