"Commitment to Life" MSNBC Trailer

"Commitment to Life," currently streaming on Peacock, will have its broadcast debut on MSNBC on Sunday, April 28th, 2024 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET.
Against a rich Hollywood backdrop, "Commitment to Life" documents the true story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles - and how an intrepid group of people living with HIV/AIDS, doctors, movie stars, studio moguls and activists changed the course of the epidemic.

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It's a great documentary ! People forget who helped and THOSE WHO DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER !

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I saw "Commitment to Life" today and remembered how terrible that time was, but more that that my daughter, age 19 then, changed my understanding of what it really was to be Christian. She was on a Seattle bus when a very ill man tried to get off at an aides clinic and fell; she got off the bus and help him into the clinic and made sure he was attended to. Later that day she phoned to share what had happened. It was 1988 and I immediately became concerned and questioned her judgement and insisted she take every precaution I could come up with, until I finally asked her why she would do such a risky thing. She hesitated and then she replied "because that's what you taught us." Then she said "Why did we spend so much time in church if you didn't believe?" Life lessons come in all forms; I did not become an aides activist I lived in a very small town, but I knew aides as another plague and not punishment. I started to use discernment in what version of the love of God I adopted and it was never again punishment or exclusion and I prayed for a cure to that plague and any others that might come. The volume of deaths is still overwhelming and the fact that the government was so willing to let so many die before taking action is still horrendous and makes me know we must guard against the of governance of exclusion and punishment.