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BLAC counters whitewashed narrative of Appalachia

Posted on 02/11/22 by Amanda Woodrum in Clean Energy + Green Jobs

Bishop Marcia Dinkins leads the charge with first-ever BLAC paper For most of the last century, the people of Appalachia’s Ohio River Valley powered the prosperity of this nation. What you might not know — because of broad stereotypes about Appalachia — is that many of those people were Black workers. Working remotely from her home in Dayton, Bishop Marcia Dinkins launched the Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) to counter whitewashed narratives of Appalachia by removing the cloak of Black Appalachian invisibility in the first ever BLAC paper, “Black Storytelling and Policy Making in Appalachia.” An event celebrating the report’s release can be... read more