Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: The Jeremiah Show: Pop Culture, Music Icons Food Gods
Episode: Christopher A. Brooks | Best-Selling, Award-Winning Biographer
Description: THE JEREMIAH SHOW - Featuring Christopher A. Brooks | Professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University & Best-Selling, Award-Winning Biographer
Christopher's new book is "Tales Of Koehler Holler: An African American Family in Rural Appalachia"
by NAOMI HODGE-MUSE and (International Best-Selling Biographer) CHRISTOPHER A. BROOKS
Tales of Koehler Hollow tells the story of Amy Finney and her descendants. Amy, a formerly enslaved Black woman, gained her freedom and established a homestead in the Appalachian mountains during a time in American history when she was dehumanized for the color of her skin and devalued for being female.Â
Chri...