Last year, reporter Babette Thomas went home to visit their family in Oakland. They started digging into a side of Jonestown they'd never heard about before. She says it's too painful to come here because it's changed so much since she was a kid. "I'm driving around with my mom in San Francisco. This isn't something that happens very often"
A sonic memorial to the Black women of the Peoples Temple.
Produced and reported by Babette Thomas. Edited by Liza Yeager and Mitchell Johnson, with editorial oversight from Daniel Denvir and Alex Lewis.
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