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keep losing our connection to the places we come from. i am headed to central appalachia, a place many folks dont realize black folk still live, to hunt, eat, farm, and harmonize on the harmonica with the folks that fight to keep this place known as one of the homes of black folks. this is black appalachia. >> yeah. nice. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> when i say appalachia, you probably picture something like this, or this. harmful stereotypes of poor white folks. we will have to take those on an...

Meeting the appalachian white south in this place, right here. a very unique town. this town was owned by the largest company in the united states, at the time. united states steel. the money was in coal, and our parents were part of that labor movement. >> in the 1920s and taken back 30s, the coal industry in central appalachia employed 150,000 people. despite how it is portrayed, 1 in 5 coal miners were black. lynch had a population of over 10,000 people. in 2019, 533. there are still folks he...