Thread by @jilleanmcc, There are a lot of names missing from those lists about who [...]

Jillean McCommons

jilleanmcc

There are a lot of names missing from those lists about who writes about Appalachia. They may talk about Black people but notice if they lift up Black folks work, if Black folks get positions, if Black folks get passed the mic. I'm going to drop some names:

William Isom ( https://www.blackinappalachia.org/ )
Enkeshi El-Amin ( @Soon2bDrElamin)
Mekyah Davis @mekyahd ( https://www.thestayproject.net/what-is-black-appalachian-young--rising.html)
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @_AshDashLee_ ( https://highlandercenter.org/ )

Black in Appalachia | Histories of the Mountain South

Black in Appalachia offers research, local narratives, public engagement and exhibition to highlight the history of the Black Communities of the mountain South. It is an East Tennessee PBS initiative.

https://www.blackinappalachia.org/

And so many more. Workers, activists, writers, musicians, academics, everyday people. All their work could have been lifted up instead of all this writing against that book and film.

I mean, y'all published whole books against a book when y'all could have published books by Black people in and on Appalachia!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More writers to consider (not exhaustive)
Effie Waller Smith
Nikki Giovanni
Wilburn Hayden
Cicero Fain
Crystal Wilkinson
Ely Green
Karida Brown
Ancella Bickley
Doris Davenport
Joe Trotter
Bill Turner & Ed Cabbell
Frank X Walker
Darin Waters
Glenis Redmond

Add more if you got it. Black people from or about Appalachia.

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