Episode 13 | Daniel Royles on HIV/AIDS & the Black Community

The HIV/AIDS epidemic impacts the entire nation but most especially those communities already vulnerable to social injustice– the African American
community.

As with COVID-19, the disparities felt by Black & brown communities due to systemic racism are exacerbated when a global virus threatens everyone’s health, calling attention to the precocity of marginalized groups. But what did AIDS activism look like for African Americans in the early days of the AIDS crisis? On this episode of Left of Black, host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Prof. Daniel Royles, Assistant Professor of History at Florida International University and the author of To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS, published by UNC Press.