‘1619,’ Episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started

<p>Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 4 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1619podcast" target="_blank">nytimes.com/1619podcast</a>.</p><p>Black Americans were denied access to doctors and hospitals for decades. From the shadows of this exclusion, they pushed to create the nation’s first federal health care programs. Guests: Jeneen Interlandi, a member of The New York Times’s editorial board and a writer for The Times Magazine, and Yaa Gyasi, the author of “Homegoing.”</p><p>Background reading:</p><ul><li>“One hundred and fifty years after the freed people of the South first petitioned the government for basic medical care, the United States remains the only high-income country in the world where such care is not guaranteed to every citizen,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html" target="_blank">Jeneen Interlandi writes</a>.</li><li>The Times Magazine asked 16 writers to bring pivotal moments in African-American history to life. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/african-american-poets.html" target="_blank">Read Yaa Gyasi’s story “Bad Blood” here</a>.</li><li>The “1619” audio series is part of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html" target="_blank">Read more from the project here</a>.</li></ul>