CSPAN2 Bakari Sellers My Vanishing Country July 12, 2024
Hillbilly elegy of the forgotten workingclass men and women part memoir, part historical and analysis. It is an eyeopening journey of the south past, present and future. Anchored in the hometown of South Carolina it illuminates the things that continue to fertilize the soil of one of the worst states in the nation. He traces his fathers life to Martin Luther king and numbered of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. In the dwindling rural black working class many of whom can trace their ancestry back seven generations. In the poetic personal history we are a weekend to the crisis affe...