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.
The latest documentary from Elaine McMillion Sheldon — a filmmaker with deep coal-mining roots — draws viewers in with "elements of fable and magical realism.”