Sherman Neal spent many days of the summer of 2020 in the Western Kentucky college town of Murray next to a Confederate monument at the county courthouse.
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Black communities have been subjugated to mistreatment by the government and society for centuries in the U.S. This didnât automatically change when integration was implemented or voting rights were granted in the 1960s. The struggle for equal opportunity and recognition is ongoing, and 2020 highlighted that further with the Black Lives Matter movement and the illumination of structural violence and systemic racism.
An organization that is close to home that works toward spreading Black narratives and promoting community-based improved circumstances is Black in Appalachia.
Black in Appalachia is a regionally-focused organization that began in 2012. They partnered with the University of Tennessee Knoxvilleâs School of Information Sciences and spread Black narratives throughout East Tennessee.