Celebrating A Tradition Of Poets And Discussing The Resurgence Of Black Lung, Inside Appalachia - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

This week on Inside Appalachia, Rev. George Mills Dickerson of Tazewell, Virginia was born in the years after slavery ended. He’s remembered today through his poetry. And a new wave of black lung disease is ravaging Appalachia. We’ll hear more from a black lung town hall in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Coal miners have their own thoughts about black lung, too.

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