Here’s that story, reported by Tracie Hunte and hosted by Radiolab ’s Lulu Miller.

In this story, Tracie looks back to the AIDS epidemic, another time when people in our country demanded action in every way they could think of. Longoria: How do you actually get people in power to pay attention and make change? Hunte: What actually works to make a change? Longoria: And in the midst of all of that tragedy and conflict, people all over the country were demanding change-saying, “This isn’t working!” in every way they could: through protests, through op-eds, through expressions of grief. There were literally protests right outside my window. Hunte: You know, the protests broke out that summer in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Longoria: And in the midst of all that, people all over the country started taking to the streets. Hunte: You know there was all this, like-obviously-grief and mourning for actual deaths, but also just, like, how much our way of life was changing. Longoria: It’s a story she reported for the show Radiolab last summer, when the pandemic was raging all over the country. Tracie Hunte: Around April 2020, we were in the middle of a pandemic, and I was like, “Hey, remember the last time we were in the middle of a pandemic?” You know, like … Longoria: Okay, so-if you can remember-why did you originally do this story?

And this week, we’re revisiting a story reported a while back by correspondent Tracie Hunte.

It continues with the sounds of an electric forest: echoing synthesizers as birds, trilling cricket-like buzzes.

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