U.S. songs like “Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose” (1916) were played in local communities across North America, and served as a reminder that the dominant culture considered Black women to be ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

Per Merriam-Webster, a mammy is defined as a "Black woman serving as a nurse to white children especially formerly in the southern U.S." Lizzo uploaded a TikTok duet with a fan, whose username is ...

Jess Bishop, a black lung victim, takes his last breaths while his sons — also coal miners — keep vigil in Logan County, W.Va., in 1976. The disease spiked in the 1960s and '70s but then ...

They stand as most unusual sentinels around the perimeter of the gallery. A black mammy figure in a red dress holds a broom and a rifle. Another in a dotted apron clutches a high-powered rifle ...