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Retro Report on PBS
The Forgotten History of AIDS
H.I.V. rates have fallen in many places, but the AIDS crisis persists in parts of the U.S.
Hard Risks for Athletes
Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.
Hard Risks for Athletes
Season 1 Episode 6 | 11m 51s | CC
In 1982, boxing fans tuned in for a championship bout between Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini of Ohio and South Korean fighter Duk-Koo Kim. It was a 14-round slugfest -- afterward, medical concerns about the brutality of boxing mounted, and the sport’s foothold in mainstream American culture began to slip. Today, with concerns over concussions in football growing, will football suffer the same fate?
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