Cultural historian Jeff Biggers gives an account of how strip-mining has destroyed his family’s nearly 200-year-old hillside homestead in southern Illinois. In Reckoning at Eagle Creek, he chronicles the legacy of coal outside of Appalachia.
Event: Jeff Biggers will reading, performing, and signing books as part of “Black Diamonds, Black Lives & the Coal Roots of Black History Month: The Historical Legacy of Black Slavery and Coal Mining”
Friday, February 26, at 8:00 pm
Harlem Arts Salon
1925 Seventh Avenue, 7L, at 117th Street
Admission: $10
More information here.
Guests:
Jeff Biggers
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Comments [5]
Don't only knock the Obama administration. The US Congress deserves discredit.
By the way, almost the same thing is slated for the lovely area around Tucson, Arizona.
What does it mean when you alternate between Black and African American?
Thank you for this show!
Believing in "clean coal" is akin to believing in Santa Claus, but not nearly as endearing.
Nothing "clean" about it -- not then, not now.
How nice for you that your family had so much coal they fed it to the pigs...what a nice family.
Why is slavery the only thing certain people want to showcase for Black History month?
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