How the Bad Blood Started Podcast

Medical care has been one of the biggest issues in our nation. Questions such as; Who qualifies for medical care? How is does medical care? Question like these arise when folks question the medical system. Medical care comes easy to the folks that are in the working class and most percentage of that is white people. There is a lack of medical care in the black community due to the cycle of history. In the Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started podcast, these folks bring to life the history of how poorly the black community was treated through the medical industry. I love how Nikole Hannah-Jones began the pod cast with a modern day personal story of her uncle and how the government medical system failed them. This opened the door to curiosity, asking questions like why did the doctors false diagnosed him? Why did this take long for him to find out he was sick? Why was there no proper care or emotional care from the doctor to his condition? This is what grew my attention to listen more and pulled me to listen to the history of how the bad blood stared.

This image comes from Hulu: The 1916 Project Documentary

This podcast was forty minutes long, which for me it is not a problem because I enjoy listening to podcasts. But for folks who are not normalized to podcast they might say its quite long. The content creators from this podcast did not make it seem long or made it dragged. They utilized archived recordings, instrumental music played in the background of the podcast, different voices were speaking, the stories and examples that were being told were relevant, and the details/descriptions throughout the podcast painted a picture in my head.

The way Nikole Hannah-Jones asks questions through out the podcast are questions that are factual and précised, that make you say wow. the link here is the link to the podcast but I wanted to share 12 minutes in how she asked emphasized her words and asked the question, "So you’re saying that the federal government at that time was only supplying 100 doctors to serve the entire emancipated population of 4 million people?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/podcasts/1619-slavery-healthcare.html?

Nikole Hannah-Jones is the author of the 1916 Project Book, she created a space where it folks felt uncomfortable to read her book on how factual her statements were in black history. I found a YouTube video of her answering questions of her book and speaking about the project of itself.

https://youtu.be/09q49bzxJm8 

Bringing podcast into an educational space can be fun, this opens the door to new learning, curiosity and creativity. students begin to open up and have open conversation and this creates agency in the classroom setting. Having a podcast in class can be highly affective and fun!