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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...

Direction or did something happen? >> nah, not for me. my first year of college, i went to uva, to play ball. decided i didn't want to play ball a couple of days in. after that, i stay. >> stay stands for stay together appalachian youth. bear, black appalachian rising, which mykaya founded works to place young folks at the forefront of community building and connecting folks with the resources they need to remain in their home communities. >> and then when kaya started doing work with stay, i started traveling with him. and then i become a part of stay. and stay is part of my life. meeting all...

Here, heavily armed with their vests on and their long guns. they've been walking up and down the train, i guess, protecting and making sure no one who isn't supposed to be on that train is getting on there. nlt a >> and we did see a few minutes ago pegasus, that's uva's helicopter. we're hearing reports from a nurse on the scene originally saying one person died in this. we did see this other person air lifted, we assume, to uva. what else have you seen out here? you did get here very soon after this accident happened. >> yeah, i got here before even a number of the first responders that are ...

Attending a party was gang-raped by a bunch of frat boys. or so she claimed. >> we have no evidence to support the assertions. "rolling stone" retracted the story. the reporter apologizing to readers, to uva and victims of sexual assault but not to phi kappa psi. now threatening to sue, saying clearly our fraternity and its members have been defamed. columbia journalism school released a blistering investigation. commissioned by "rolling stone." it details a series of failures. among them the magazine failed to contact jackie's alleged attackers or some of her friends who are cited in the stor...

Where jackie a uva student attending a party was gang-raped by a bunch of frat boys. or she so she claimed. "rolling stone" retracted the story. the reporter apologizing to readers, to uva and victims of sexual assault but not to phi kappa psi. now threatening to sue, saying clearly our fraternity and its members have been defamed. columbia journalism school released a blistering investigation. commissioned by "rolling stone." it details a series of failures. among them the magazine failed to contact jackie's alleged attackers or some of her friends who are cited in the story. those friends la...