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there you go. ♪ >> bob marley said it best. stolen from africa, gentrified in harlem. american black folks keep losing our connection to the places we come from. so i'm headed to central appalachia, a place many folks don't realize black folks 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. >> again! yes! ♪ >> nice! ♪ ♪ when i say appalachia, you probably picture something like this, or this. harmful stereotypes of poor white folks. we'll have to tak...

keep losing our connection to the places we come from. i am headed to central appalachia, a place many folks don't 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 another day. what you probably do not picture is this. a history of black folks here runs as deep as ...

being locked down for months. when they got triggered they went berserk cities like kenosha, seattle and portland. the rest of america was forced to watch in fear. it was a scary summer. the last thing america needs right now is another summer of love. but the signs are all pointing to that summer of 2022 is going to be a hell of a lot worse. and in some different ways. if you look at the country, many of us aren't happy. even the people who voted for this president can't sugar coat it because they are struggling, too. and they are struggling financially because of gas, groceries, an...

>> it's easy for some people to say why don't you just leave? it's not always an option for folks to leave. >> it's not free to leave. it's not free to start your life somewhere else. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think the other thing about this gathering is that a lot of people outside of this area of the world wouldn't realize that there'd be a racial mix like this at one gathering in appalachia. >> yeah. >> we have all shades of black folks and all shades of white folks. >> it's not a homogenous narrative of just white folks. a range of people with different backgrounds and experiences. >> so wha...

This area of the world don't realize there could be a racial mix like this at one gathering in appalachia. we have all shades of black folks and all shades of white folks. >> it's not this homogenous narrative of just white folks. it's a range of people with different backgrounds and experiences. >> what is life like around here? >> a lot of running around with your friends, playing tag and stuff like that. i feel like we were always outside. it's exciting. exciting as it could be as a kid in a small town, but it was nice. >> now your activist's. were you always headed in that direction? >> no...