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 take those on another day, because what you probably don t picture is this. but the history of black folks here runs as deep as any other nonindigenous people. they are a critical part of appalachia, and i m here to help tell their stories because it is in danger of disappearing forever. so i m actually walking the appalachian trail right now? you are. you are. those mountains there, those are some of the old
this. this is what s going to really give it that s the magic? your wife is going to love me for this. i think she already loves you, but yes, another reason to love nikki vee vianey. now we got this. isn t that pretty? it looks beautiful. it really does. we re going put it in that one. and thank you. and this just going to relax and make the house smell good. so tell me a little more. this is the highland center. how long has this been here? oh, since the 30s of so. the quakers started this. the quakers, they don t believe in violence. and so a lot of people came up to learn how to be nonviolent. how to help put protests together. the highlander center is like a university of civil disobedience. buried in the hills outside of n newmarket, tennessee, it was founded by miles horton in the