Crystal Good, Artist & Writer, OSU: Joe Manchin & Black West Virginia, Affrilachia

- Crystal Good on Joe Manchin and Black West Virginia. Interesting discussion with Richard Eskow, The Zero Hour, June 10, 2021.




- Crystal Good, Center for Folklore Studies, OSU, Ohio State University. Good is an Affrilachian artist, digital media entrepreneur, and social advocate. She is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, a group of writers and artists whose creations and existence combat the erasure of African American identity in the Appalachian region, an Irene McKinney Scholar, and author of Valley Girl. She is the founder and CEO of Mixxed Media, a marketing and consulting firm that teaches media and engagement strategies to mission-driven organizations, and she is a member of the band Heroes Are Gang Leaders.

She also works as an advocate for environment, education, and economic actions like industrial hemp, and she is creating a digital commons for voters to express their concerns through her self-made position of Social Media Senator for West Virginia. Crystal Good has spoken and read her poetry in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, at the West Virginia section of the Women’s March on Washington, for the 2013 TEDx conference in Lewisburg, West Virginia, for the LouderARTS Project, for the Appalachian Mountain Advocates, and for students and scholars at several universities and colleges.

On Feb. 16, 2018, Crystal Good visited Ohio State for the first time and engaged with our students through student lunches, a performance and talk, and a workshop.. She discussed her self-made role as West Virginia’s social media senator, her work as a lobbyist for industrial hemp, and her use of poetry to speak across audiences...

https://cfs.osu.edu/folkohio/events/crystal-dawn-good
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- 'Appalachia Black Poets, Writers,' Yes! Magazine April 2021.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/04/16/appalachia-black-poets-writers
Black Writers and Poets Are Upending Stereotypes About Appalachia