This podcast is a reminder that we are not learning all the lessons from history, especially when you lived through it and thought you understood what and why it happened.

Remembering and telling an untold history of people who could have been forgotten. Simply brilliant and a compelling listen. A must for anyone who cares about what destruction HIV/AIDS wrought.

Excellent work here.

“What if there’d never been an HIV epidemic?” Wow. As someone who has a decent understanding of the history of HIV/AIDS this podcast was refreshing. Amplifying the voices of women and QTPOC folx, this podcast provides a critical counter narrative. Exceptionally well done.

Such an amazing podcast. Thank you for Sharing and educating so many of us.

Very impactful series would love to see you explore other blind spots. I realized listening to the series that I have wounds that have not healed living and caring for pts who had no one else to do so. This could have been easily in Miami where the same set of circumstances occurred in pediatrics, the black and brown communities as well as our gay population. Thank you

I am so personally appreciative of this series on the AIDS Epidemic. I thank you for telling these stories and honoring so many lost souls! MORE BLINDSPOT PLEASE!! 🙏🏽

We need more blindspot episodes about other historical events.

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I truly enjoyed this podcast! It’s very informative and eye opening!

I enjoyed most of this show, but by the time I got through half of Episode 5 “The Body” it has gotten less about reporting and became more about pseudoscience. It had been growing increasingly more wonky but it got to the point where I just turned it off. I would have liked to continue learning and correcting blind spots I have about this horrific event, unfortunately I’ll have to look for an alternate source.

Pretty good podcast.

History is human. It is a compilation of stories and experiences from the people that endured, exploited, survived, and flourished through it. I learned a ton while being entertained… though that might not be the correct word, as I was disgusted at points, angry, ashamed, but also inspired and… COMPELLED, is the better word. Enjoy both seasons, learn through riveting accounts, and delight in the production value and the efforts to bring it to us. I have been telling friends and family to listen as well. Just loved it. Can’t wait and HOPE for more.. I am a better, and more informed person because of these podcast productions. Thanks again!

This beautifully produced documentary podcast tells the story of racial injustice and violence during the early 20th century, of which the Tulsa Massacre was just one of many punctuation marks. Not having pictures to watch on a screen does not detract from the storytelling. In describing the larger context of the massacre, covering very difficult to think about violence, it is an engrossing podcast to listen to. And it has made my kids and me want to learn more. Until the wounds inflicted by racial injustice have been cleaned and dressed properly, we will never truly become the great America we all want to be. An important part of that process is to understand more completely the history of how we got here, and this podcast is a compelling part of that.

I had great hopes for this series of podcasts after how well done the 9/11 episodes were put together. Alas, not to be. I really wanted to learn more about the Black Wall Street tragedy, but the folks involved in this show are too caught up condemning whitey. They fail to reach the audience they need to speak to. I’m not going to listen to a show that is being delivered with scolding and accusatory tones throughout. Try telling the story in a factual manner and leave the emotion out. Let the listener develop their own emotional response to the situation. Bashing people over the head will only get you ignored. Try listening to season 1 of this very same podcast and learn about how to deliver an important message.

Wow!!! I learned so much that I didn’t know. I stumbled upon this podcast while listening to NPR and the 20 anniversary programming. Jim O’Grady is a masterful storyteller. As a self identified nerd it was great to fall down this rabbit hole. Thank you.

I actually stumbled onto this podcast (at least season 1) because the pilot episode was played as a “guest” episode on another podcast I already listen to. And I’m glad I did because holy cow, this was engaging! The music, the narration, the twists & turns… how each episode kinda builds on the previous one… I actually had to force myself to stop after each episode, so I wouldn’t finish the whole thing in one day.

Well produced and presented. Fascinating details and insights.

Hopefully well researched and well presented.Beyond that it’s like listening to an on-the-edge-of-your-seat true accountAre some of the most important -and often shameful events -in our history.

I loved both series of Blindspot. They are heart wrenching to realize these events are factual events in our society. Both Jim and KalaLea did a great job narrating. I would definitely listen to more.

I did find the historical work of this podcast fascinating and well done. But I found the remedies were off the mark and not

Tulsa Burning is a hard listen, but it is softened by the hosts gentle and melodic demeanor. I love that the show goes all the way back to the beginning of the beginning and lays the ground work for what happened, why, and how the Tulsa Massacre still reverberates in our culture today. The host brings on wildly intelligent guests and each episode naturally leads to the other. Not a moment felt like fluff. I’m sad not more people have listened to it, but this show is beautifully well done for such a painful topic. BRAVO!

For all that say why haven’t we learned this from school? You obviously know nothing about American history, only want to learn about black history. Brush up on your Nat Turner facts.

I blew through this in just a few days because this story is so compelling. I thought I knew a lot about the Tulsa Massacre, but somehow learned more. As a mental health counselor, I believe the part on generational and cultural trauma should be essential listening for anyone in my field.

This isn’t really about the content but the execution of this podcast: outstanding.

Great job everyone involved.

Well done and informative. KalaLea, thanks for taking this on. I knew nothing about this horror or the others that are mentioned in the series. Just listened to episode 5 and purchased Resmaa Menakem’s latest book.

Incredibly insightful. Our education system is terrifying and I am saying this while also being a teacher myself.

Please help me understand! How are we supposed to understand what you all want from the sympathetic and empathetic white person? I feel like no matter what I try it is wrong! I thought I was empathetic, but I was wrong! I want us to heal together! I guess our “white privilege is real! I live in Maine, which has been labeled as “the whitest state” in our nation! This makes me ignorant on so many levels! It also make me “ignorantly” acceptable? Of ALL? Please help me understand what I am doing wrong! I love all humans! And judge them by their morals and nothing else! Thank you. A Mainer

I grew up being told “know your history or you’re doomed to repeat it”. We should all know the full scope of the history we share. I love this podcast, and I appreciate all you are doing and dealing with to put it together. Thank you, sending love and positivity your way.

One of my new favorite podcasts. Great storytelling and very insight views on important issues in America.

I grew up being educated in the American Public School system and I was never taught about this. I was raised conservative, attended an expensive private Liberal Arts college in Oklahoma and was still never taught about this. It was never mentioned, not even once. I think that’s abhorrent and completely unacceptable, this is a part of our history. These were Americans who were completely brutalized, small business owners, and some were Veterans who fought for this country in WW1. Thank you for this podcast - every single American should listen. And to the people leaving 1 star reviews saying this is “creating racial divide” - I’m glad you’re uncomfortable. Anyone who’s not a sociopath would be uncomfortable listening to this - the question is, what will you do about it? If your answer is “ignore it, do nothing” I don’t know where you’re going but it ain’t heaven.

Incredible! I’m so glad I found this podcast!

Like many white Americans, I had never heard of the Tulsa massacre. This podcast is really well done and absolutely recommended.

I was very excited to see that it was a collaboration between the History Channel and WNYC, and it did not disappoint. For the people complaining, either they didn’t listen to the podcast or it struck a nerve.

To all of you leaving negative reviews of this podcast, check yourself. Really you think this is increasing racist theories? This is truth this is what you want to deny. So maybe you, those of you who are giving negative reviews should learn a little bit about the true history of this country.

The people leaving negative reviews about this podcast are those who won’t ever actually take the time to listen and those who need to listen the most. As someone who considers myself obsessed with history, in just two episodes I’ve learned more about the Native and Black history of the Tulsa/Oklahoma landscape than I have in my previous 43 years. Even the books I’ve read on the massacre and the oil boom that stripped blacks and natives of their land, their wealth, and even their children, didn’t go into this much detail. Looking forward to the whole story. I’m also looking forward to the ignorance to die out some day, very soon.

Your purpose is powerful/necessary and imperative. Thank you for creating a space for grieving, learning, and a place where white people need to learn-know-and must do better.

A really great podcast on the horrible events in Tulsa. Riviting and insightful

Your description that it was a white supremacist mob diminishes the truth that it was average angry white Americans that destroyed Tulsa. That type of rhetoric is why we have uneducated people saying, “Heritage, not hate.” I’ll quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Can't imagine the heart and research that went into finding out information on this horrible event when so many people tried to hide the truth. Thank you for this essential work and the exposure victims and their families are finally getting.

Goodevening thanks for sharing, I’m 68 yrs old n raised children I have grands n hv never heard of this 1921 awful story that has never been told until 2021 awful terrible

I’ve only learned about Greenwood and the massacre in the last few years, and have been hungering to understand it better. This series is helping me to understand it better, AND to understand why most of us didn’t know about this before. I’m so grateful that they made this.

This is necessary listening. Thank you for asking questions and revealing the past. It is painful to hear. Tragic to take in but necessary to understand if we are to build a healthy future together.