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there you go. ♪ >> bob marley said it best. stolen from africa, gentrified in harlem. american black folks keep losing our connection to the places we come from. so i'm headed to central appalachia, a place many folks don't realize black folks still live, to hunt, eat, farm, and harmonize on the harmonica with the folks that fight to keep this place known as one of the homes of black folks. this is black appalachia. >> again! yes! ♪ >> nice! ♪ ♪

when i say appalachia, you probably picture something like this, or this. harmful stereotypes of poor white folks. we'll have to take those on another day, because what you probably don't picture is this. but the history of black folks here runs as deep as any other nonindigenous people. they are a critical part of appalachia, and i'm here to help tell their stories because it is in danger of disappearing forever. so i'm actually walking the appalachian trail right now? >> you are. you are. those mountains there, those are some of the oldest mountains in the world. you see the swiss alps, that's so big. that's their baby. these, these are the

grandmothers. >> reporter: crystal goode is a sixth generation west virginia native, founder of black by god, an apalachicola's first black newspaper. she is going the show me around and place me at the places. >> they forget that not all appalachia is white people. >> uh-huh. >> and folks like me and my family don't necessarily get into that narrative, and that's why i'm excited to be i think the docent of appalachia. >> the docent of appalachia. is that an official title? >> i don't know. i just made it up. and this place, harper's ferry tells one of the most amazing stories of the united states of america. >> oh, i love this story. in 1859, john brown, a white radical abolitionist led a raid on this armory, intended to free america's four million slaves.

it's one of those many moments in american history where you wonder what would have happened if that had worked out? but after two days of trying and 14 death, including two of brown's sons, the armory was surrounded by u.s. marines, and brown was caught, tried and hung because of, of course. >> people don't think of harper's ferry as being not only the place where the first shots of the civil war were fired. they don't think of it being the place where the civil rights movement started. >> that's because for many people, the story of black appalachia begins and ends with john brown, a white dude. >> so the significance of this place is dismissed. historic college is where the niagara movement had their first meeting in america. and that is the foundations of the naacp. but this is really just the entry point for black appalachian history that is american history and going to go on a journey. >> all right.

all right. >> reporter: appalachia is not a place, it's a region. 13 states, 206,000 square miles and 26 million people. the 2.5 million black appalachians are the largest minority group here, disrupting that singular white working class narrative that we often hear in the media. black appalachians came here over generations, dating all the way back to the conquistadors. they worked the coal mines. they fought for labor rights right alongside white appalachians, and they won. they hunted and farmed and all things considered appalachia, black folks found a pretty decent life. but we all know how black capitalism works. with the discovery of easily distracted high quality coal. since 1950, west virginia lost nearly half of its black population. damn. and in some ways, the culture

they created is barely hanging on. the first stop on my appalachian trail brings me here in full camo with a shotgun. >> jesus. >> stay tuned. if the history of this show teaches us anything, this doesn't go well. >> this is chicken the woods. i smell that. >> marcus ogilvie is a mountainman, actor, comedian. this isn't the first time he has taken me outdoors. he is taking me outdoors to hunt for his dad's squirrel gravy. that's right. squirrel gravery. i want you to try to do a squirrel quali. >> logistic. >> just like that. close your hand. >> that's good. squirrels are is he making fun of us?

>> clearly i'll keep work on my squirrel call. luckily, i'm with marcus. he shows me that out here there is food everywhere. >> this is a paw-paw tree. ever heard of paw-paws? >> huh-uh. >> it is one of the only indigenous groups to the area. this is like an avocado full of sugar. >> okay. >> bon appetit. >> all right. >> carefully. >> mmm. >> and look up. right here there is a cluster of them. if you live on land like this, or you have land like this available to you, you could kill some meat, eat some paw-paws. >> sustain yourself. >> sustain your. >> but if you remove from it and you don't have somebody to introduce you to it, you'd never know to eat that. >> if you don't keep passing those skills down and the next generation doesn't pass them down. >> and it's already happening. there is fewer and fewer hunters all the time. if you grow up doing these things, how can you be a bad

person? you learn patience. you learn sustainability. we should be hunting squirrels right now. we're eating paw-paw. let's get right back to it. >> all right. >> it goes without saying that not as many black folks spend their time hunting and foraging as we used to. a lot of it is because of access to land. also, we moved to urban centers where you can't be a black person carrying around a gun, even if you are a hunting. >> twho brought you out the firt time? >> dad. dad was everything. it's something you pass down. have you been out in the woods much? >> i was trying to think. my dad was in mobile, alabama. we still didn't get butte out into the woods. >> there is a squirrel 12:00 from you. get ready to shoot. get it up in the shoulder. right there. right there.

on that tree. >> oh. >> i don't see him. >> sorry, you missed. >> you put the fear of god in him. >> that guy's shooting wild. we got to get out of here. >> settle down. we'll get more chances. >> i understand how hunting works and respect people who do it, but there is still a stigma about going out there and killing stuff. >> you know, a lot of people want to think it's nature and us. we are nature. we are predators. we are animals. so it's really -- he's back. cover your ears, kamau. right on that tree, right.

dead squirrel. >> did you get him? >> he's on the ground. >> wow. it was a little tony montana at the end. and right in the walmart bag. >> right in the walmart bag. >> we got one. we got one. >> back at the homestead, it's marcus' brother scott and his kids, tayson. mountain is marcus' son. let's get our hands dirty, shall we? >> oh my god. >> now, you got get the rest of that out of there. >> what are you talking about? >> you shoot it, you clean it. or you stand next to the dude who shoots it and you still clean it. >> oh, guts.

my finger went in a hole. >> mike, marcus' dad, is the chef. a master of coalfield cuisine where you make good with what you got. in this case, venice son, biscuit, and that sweet squirrel gravy. ♪ before you start making fun of appalachians eating squirrel, this is not an everyday meal anymore. squirrel is how they teach newbies to hunt. they're doing this for me. my welcome to the family. >> wow. >> all right. there we go. >> nice. >> give it a shot. >> make sure you don't get some buckshot. >> no buckshot. >> i think it passed. i think it passed. you have to have a lot of skills. that's the thing i'm starting the learn living out here. >> necessity is a good teacher. >> well, i grew up in the coal fields. and there were no deer. and the only thing that my dad taught us how to hunt was squirrels and rabbits.

>> so what do you feel like generally the rest of the country doesn't understand about west virginia? >> some people don't want to come here because they think we're all hillbilly and backwards. they think we're going to come out with a hat and overalls on and say hey, get off my lawn. >> i think there is something around the way black people in west virginia have to survive, that we ourselves don't explore enough. i think a lot of prime minister what happens for us in west virginia, each on the outside, black communities don't necessarily see us. >> and that's part of appalachia, man. these people, they ate squirrel out of necessity. so when people frown upon these kind of things, it's because they were willing to accept a narrative that was handed to them and not explore it any further. >> yeah. >> so you can either accept the narrative or you can get to know somebody.

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♪ life is funny. sometimes you end up in places you wouldn't expect and then you decide to go back. tucked into the mountains of eastern kentucky, lynch is one of those places for me. you may recognize it from such shows as this one. ah, look at me back in 2016, young, gifted and black. okay, youngish. what brought me back is this man. i love to rattle off the fact that if you take appalachia as a

geopolitical space, some of the most well-known black people in american history have their roots in appalachia. the most famous black man ever live is booker t. washington. booker er tv t. had been a coal minor. bessie smith. >> and these parts, dr. bill turner is the truth. he wrote the book -- well, the books on black appalachia. his latest book "harlem renaissance" details his life growing up in lynch. why the harlan renaissance? i know the harlem renaissance. but if this were back in the day, the street would be filled with history. so we used to say our little town back here was the blackest town for mountains around. when i was a child, count bassie came here. the negro league baseball teams used to come here. hank aaron played here, otis

redding. >> so people outside of here wouldn't think to describe it as cosmopolitan, but it must have felt that way. >> very much so. there were people named vecinni, and people named miss willie mae. it was a rich mixture of the black south meeting ining the appalachian white south in this place right here. a very unique town. this town right here was owned by the largest company in the united states at the time, united states steel. and their money was in coal. and our parents were part of that labor movement. >> in the 1920s and 30s, the coal industry in central apalachicola employed 150,000 people. and despite how it's been portrayed, one in five coal miners were black. at its peak, lynch had a population of over 10,000 people. in 2019, 533. but there are still folks here

to tell their story. >> worked in the coal mine for 13 years. my dad didn't work in the mines, but when they started women coal miner, there was an opportunity. >> reporter: trina smith thomas is a former coal minor. claire clemens is a teacher. imagish owns a local restaurant. >> they wasn't hiring women. >> women didn't work in the coal mines. >> it was bad luck, they said. >> well, you can't argue with science like that. what was it like being among the first women to work the coal mine? >> well, you had some men that tried to basically get you to quit. >> yeah. >> but hey, i'm a strong woman. i ain't backing down nobody. >> i imagine there is talk about physically you couldn't do the work. >> uh-huh. and i outdid them.

you know -- the belt line, that's cold. it's like shoveling up on bail. and that's why i got all these guns right here. >> i was going to say something. was it -- was it hard on your body? >> honey, yes. lord have mercy. aches and pains today, you know. you know, your back is like this all night long. >> if the coal mines had stayed open? >> i'd have been right there. >> you'd have been right there. >> i would have been right there. i'm proud to be a coal miner, especially black coal miner because you don't get very few -- it ain't far in between. >> we have been here forever. but you know the all saw that says if a tree falls in the woods and there is nobody there to hear it, did it make a sound? okay. so since a lot of people didn't

see us, they didn't know we were here. now when i look around in my old neighborhood, as you can see, there is a crane down there that is taking down a house. all of these were our friends. this is what happens when the company abandons the town. >> back in the day, right, that if you had five kids, when you graduate, you get a bus ticket, because they could see the change, the economic change coming, right? >> the young people as soon as they get out of high school, they get out of here, and they don't come back. what would you say to the black young girls who are here now? what do you want for them and what would you say to them? >> do we have any? >> no. >> i don't know of any. >> that's sad. >> yeah. >> for decades, lynch was a place where black folks could come to get a pretty fair shake,

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the whole thing about food, first of all, is who you're cooking with and who you're cooking for. >> uh-huh. >> i teach writing. and one of the things i say to my students, it's not what you're writing, it's why. and cooking is the same thing. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the show nikki giovanni, a living legend. born in knoxville, tennessee. a poet, writer, activist and educator. she has been called the poet of the black revolution. no biggie. and in case you didn't think she could do it all, she is also a fantastic cook. a fantastic southern cook. >> we've got the whole garden here. >> i'm not a chef. i'm a southern cook. so you eat and cook with what you have. >> okay. >> and i'm her sous chef as she cooks up chitlins and pig feet.

>> i love pig feet and chit lines. >> for the record, what are chitlins? >> they're the intestines. >> okay. >> what we're doing here just cleaning them. we're just taking the fat off of it. >> how long have you been cooking chitlins? when did you learn how to do this? >> oh, my. when i was tall enough to stand with my grandmother. in those days -- >> yeah, you couldn't afford to waste. >> these foods are foundational to southern cooking, if you know what to do with. and trust nikki knows what to do with them. not only is it the part of the pig a lot of people don't eat, it's a lot of work to get to them. >> everything that's good, it's a lot of work. >> okay, you're doing the thing you do. >> and you're just kind of standing there hum if you like the blues, which i do. so you're always going to have onion, of course. you're always going to have some carrots. we're just adding, as i said, i'm not a chef. i'm a southern cook. i'm going to put some beer over

this. this is what's going to really give it -- >> that's the magic? >> your wife is going to love me for this. >> i think she already loves you, but yes, another reason to love nikki vee vianey. >> now we got this. isn't that pretty? >> it looks beautiful. >> it really does. we're going put it in that one. and thank you. and this just going to relax and make the house smell good. >> so tell me a little more. this is the highland center. how long has this been here? >> oh, since the '30s of so. the quakers started this. the quakers, they don't believe in violence. and so a lot of people came up to learn how to be nonviolent. how to help put protests together. >> the highlander center is like a university of civil disobedience. buried in the hills outside of n newmarket, tennessee, it was founded by miles horton in the

1930s, originally to train union organizers. but by the mid 1940, the center's focus expanded to the civil rights struggle. >> my grandmother came up here, and she learned about how to be a protester. >> really? >> and rosa parks came up here. >> through the years, this place has stood as a beacon of allyship and resistance. the montgomery bus boycott, the student nonviolent coordinating committee, fanny lou hammer, and look at this, martin is working on that dream. this is hallowed ground. >> i think we forget what the appalachians and the black americans put together to make america. not just the culinary situation, but also the stories. >> obviously you're nikki giovanni, legend, internationally known and renowned. you're from here, but you could also live anywhere on the planet you wanted to live. why do you come here here? >> this is home. >> this is home? >> this is home. absolutely.

>> oh, it looks wonderful. well, you said you've -- >> i've never done this. so get one out. >> well, it's all very nice and tender. so whatever you want to try is going to be good. >> so i just pull it apart? >> it's a finger food. >> it just sort of melts. >> it's good. >> tastes pretty good. >> not pretty good. good. >> i feel like sometimes in my life i've been accused of not being black enough. i feel like eating pigs feet with nikki giovanni is a real solid punch in my black card. >> those people just jealous. when caught in early stages it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and i detect altered dna in your stool

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♪ time to share some of this good food that me and nikki giovanni cooked up. okay, mostly nikki giovanni. joining us are the folks behind the black in appalachia podcast, because of course there is a podcast. william eisen, dr. el amin and

angela dennis. the executive director of the highlander center and the poet laureates of the show, nikki and crystal. i'm hungry. >> i'm a big "jeopardy!" fan. i was really sorry when alex died. alex could pronounce anything, something that's greek that is 8,000 years old, he could pronounce it. and the question was appalachia. and he could not pronounce appalachia. and i was like let me call in. >> let me in, coach. >> take that question, nikki giovanni called in to correct me. there is a very popular narrative of black americans in the south that we can't tell the story of the south without telling the story of black americans. however, often america tells the story of appalachia without the black folks. >> right. >> you know. so can we tease that apart for people watching?

what is it to be black from appalachia? >> if i'm in a place where there are black people and mountains, i'm at home. it feels like home. >> it's the land that makes you an appalachian. my family has been here since before there was such a thing as tennessee. slaves and freed. our relationship to the hills like i could probably name every one of those hills out there. i don't exist without this place. >> what i care about is that my, you know, 9-year-old niece grows up to know that, like, she came from a long line of people that expected her to inherit this experience. the experience about what littell her about who she is. and reclaiming what white supremacy and patriarchy and capitalism stole from me, they might even relinquish me calling myself an appalachian. but the thing they really didn't

want me to know is a long legacy of resistance. >> right, right. >> i was in lynch, kentucky earlier this week. and the narrative i got there was really in 20, 30, 40 years it may not be black in appalachia there anymore. how do you continue the legacy? >> we need resources. it's key, right? black folks and poor folks, folks need resources. >> and with a plan. we have a resource that i feel like is not tapped in, even among ourselves of how we pass and share information. and i think that that's like, you know, key to survival and key to bringing young folks with old folks, that multigenerational to say what is the future. >> i live two hours my whole life from highlander and didn't know it existed until my 19th birthday because some student nonviolent coordinating committee veterans said oh, you're from tennessee. what's up at highlander?

i don't know what you're talking about. >> you know what they told me? i grew up at the bottom of the hill. >> oh, right. >> they told me there's a nudist colony. >> we've had many personas up here. >> oh, my gosh. >> clearly this identity of being from this place was stolen. we're literally in an uphill battle against a multitude of states that are very intentionally trying to keep this story very whitewashed, and i don't think that's by accident. >> i'm a big fan of we need to tell ourselves what the history is. >> that's it. >> forget about what other people doing, don't know. i'll be 80 in two years. we're beginning to lose the people who know those stories. >> one way to keep these appalachian stories alive is music. ♪ which brings us to the banjo. you knew we'd get some ban zbloe this show. the banjo is a source of a lot of unfortunate stereotypes. but like yams, math, all of

human existence, the banjo was born in africa, brought by enslaved black folks. by keeping the banjo's roots alive, trey wellington points us to appalachia's forgotten history. ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >> thank you.

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cut. >> happy baby! >> thank you. >> here you go. >> oh my god. a lot of stuff. >> just a few diapers. there you go. >> thanks. >> mikaya and davis are twins from big stone gap, virginia. that's right, big stone gap. nothing sounds more like an appalachian city that a city named big stone gap. it just sounds like it. >> this baby shower is for the latest addition to this community. genova and madison's soon to be daughter. kamau is a good name. are these people all from this community? >> yes. we're all from here. and you see that there are still young people here. >> and look around. this shower is packed with young appalachians here to support the new parents. that's in part because mykaya and genova, along with friends are making it a point to stay and build their lives here.

>> it's easy for some people to say why don't you just leave? it's not always an option for folks to leave. >> it's not free to leave. it's not free to start your life somewhere else. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i think the other thing about this gathering is that a lot of people outside of this area of the world wouldn't realize that there'd be a racial mix like this at one gathering in appalachia. >> yeah. >> we have all shades of black folks and all shades of white folks. >> it's not a homogenous narrative of just white folks. a range of people with different backgrounds and experiences. >> so what was life like growing up here? >> playing with friends, running around, playing tag and stuff like that. up until high school, we were always outside. it was exciting. it was as exciting as it could be as a kid growing up in a small town, but it was nice. >> so now you're like activists. were you always headed in that

direction or did something happen? >> nah, not for me. my first year of college, i went to uva, to play ball. decided i didn't want to play ball a couple of days in. after that, i stay. >> stay stands for stay together appalachian youth. bear, black appalachian rising, which mykaya founded works to place young folks at the forefront of community building and connecting folks with the resources they need to remain in their home communities. >> and then when kaya started doing work with stay, i started traveling with him. and then i become a part of stay. and stay is part of my life. meeting all these has helped change me and the way i think, and even helped my music too, the way i write and talk about things. ♪ my skin pretty, but they never rye to kill me, i'm saying that my black life never mattered, they black life never mattered ♪ >> what is it about you come

from here. a lot of people leave where they're from. a lot of people can't wait to get out away from where from write come. why stay? >> we're the fifth generation that went through this house that we're in. >> oh, wow. five generations have lived in the house you're in. >> we're like eighth generation appalachians. >> oh really? >> yeah. yeah, i just think ancestral land that we're on. i think really rooting in just how special that is. it's like having this tangible piece of property in our family that's been passed down. it gives us an ability to stay. it's almost a spiritual element. our people's lives and souls are tied to this place, this community. and i just think of all the stories, all the memories, all the different lives that have passed through that yard. >> you're a musician. >> yeah. >> you know, you can go to nashville. there are lots of places you could go. why stay? >> being able to gain more

appreciation for where i cam from has just helped me grow as a person and as an artist. and now that i have like my daughter on the way, i want to show her that this area can be whatever we want to it be. ♪ if you study your history, mercy on misery ♪ >> i want to show people that there are artists in the appalachians. instead of just relying on the few jobs that are here, we can make our own money doing the things we actually love and care about. we can have it all right here. >> big stone gap is itself a bit of an enigma. the percentage of black folks here is eight times higher than the rest of central appalachia. that makes it a lot easier for young black appalachians to envision a home here. what you're seeing may just be the seed of a strong future community. but if they can hold on and keep building, maybe in 50 years this place will thrive like lynch did 50 years ago.

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in ghana, they have a saying which means returns to your roots. it's kind of going back and looking what the ancestors were up to and trying to build it in a sustainable way. ♪ >> jason tarte is an educator, activist, a farmer, and a pioneer of sorts. in 2014, he did what a lot of black folks from here don't do. he returned home to english

mcdowell county farms. >> come on over today. >> while the farm is owned and operated by jason, it's soon as soon as you get here that 8-year-old awhy runs the place. >> this is an eggplant. it will be coming out slowly. >> we'll be spending time with him later. the farm produces up to 100 tons per year. but its focus is to establish black culture in the region. he trains all races in agricultural and entrepreneurship. me, i'm here because i look good. ape year couture, anybody? there we go. i learned this from tyra. there we go. there we go. don't get distracted by my good looks. bees are a big deal here. >> i'm ready for work, bees. ready to check in. >> manny ferguson is the resident beekeeper and awai's

dad. i'm telling you, this kid never stops. while awai cuts the grass, he's put me in charge of killing mites in the bee hive. and i'm on it, awai. i'm on it. >> we found out recently this area has the capacity to produce more honey than the entire state. >> okay. what makes it good? >> trees. >> just the amount of trees or the type of trees? >> both. >> see what they're talking about. there we go. you can see the hone any. >> right there. >> oh, wow. >> yeah. >> they're still working on it. >> they're still working on it. pop one of these out and see how they're living in there. >> oh, this one -- oh, come on, everybody. these are lazy. >> yeah. >> these bees ain't doing nothing. lazy bees. these bees are like me in high school. i'm working on it! >> to be fair to the bees, this isn't really honey season. when the spring and summer season comes, they produce some

of the best honey in west virginia. i know because i brought some home. but besides taste, what makes this honey really special is it is a way for people to make money off these mountains without coal. >> all right. brother kamau, here is the end product, appalachia's best. >> okay. >> we're very proud of it. mountain gold. it used to be a large black population here in appalachia, and we all left and ran -- i was guilty of it myself. the leaders here, they only speak one language, and that's coal. >> that's called a mono economy. and when this mono economy collapsed, it left this place, mcdowell county, with the dubious distinction of having the biggest population loss of any county in the united states over the last 50 years. >> all these problems, you know, could have been avoided. let's talk about the after. what do we do after coal? and that never happened. >> yaeah. >> so here we are now trying to put that together.

i think agra business has a great potential. honey alone could produce a lot of economic growth for this region. >> i think a lot of people when they think of why is this black man in rural west virginia doing agriculture, you know, they don't see it as a really act of resistance. this is the protest, and this is everyday work, and this is planting a seed for a vision of cooperative economics, you know, and how can we share this land and develop this land. >> absolutely. >> talk about the ghana commission. why did that come about? >> 2019, they had the year of return. >> yes. >> i went to ghana and had my dna tested just to find out that my ancestors were ghanaian. so i was at the creative, you know. and to see the spirit of the ghanaian people, how hard they work, they never quit. and here we are in appalachia

facing a lot of similar challenges. it really motivated me. so a lot of what we've done here in west virginia is a mirror of what's taken place in ghana. my ancestors' grandparents, they were planting fruit trees on these hillsides, raising hogs, chickens, sustaining themselves for years. so bringing back that sense of pride and, you know, being a producer, a creator yourself. ultimately, to leave a legacy of -- you see awai running around, loving what he is doing. he understands value at his age and how to get the dollars. >> he tried to sell me honey. >> yeah. >> look at the pretty thing. watch at it. >> do you like doing this work, awai? >> yes. >> why do you like it? >> because it's fun. and what we do --

>> okay, that's a blade. >> careful. >> whoa! all right. you know what you're doing. you know you're not in an urban environment when a kid has unfettered access to the ax. open ax says that he keeps going to the ax. so how often do you come out here and do this work? >> every day. >> every day. awai, what you have is called a job. do you know that's a job? >> you love it, don't you? >> if somebody asks you what's your goal, what's your goal here? my goal is black excellence. we are very capable. we've shown it time and time again. when given the opportunity, when left to ourselves to do our thing, that's the result. it's always been the result. so give us the opportunity to do what we do. it doesn't matter what industry.

it doesn't matter where we are. we will turn nothing into gold. here i think that opportunity is through agriculture, and i want these young african americans that come through my program to understand what you have been taught and what you have been shown about your own community, about your own abilities is not true. and bringing folks through here to make them believe again, there's no greater feeling. >> so is one day all this going to be yours? >> it is right now. >> oh! [ laughter ] >> that's my boy. >> good god! out of the mouth of babes, you know it. >> throughout this episode, we talked about how there are fewer and fewer black folks left in appalachia, but let me be clear. there are still black folks in appalachia. we filmed with more than we could fit in the episode. and look at them. these people are home.

we need to keep telling their stories. we need to acknowledge them in and this place. we need to make sure that just like ghana, sierra leone, harlem and atlanta, that this is one of the places that black folk come from. somebody get my harmonica. i feel a song coming on. the following is a cnn special report. his vision is almost messianic. >> you're witnessing political realignment. >> cnn investigates steve and a political movement based on lies. >> he knows who won the 2020 election. >> this illegitimate biden regime. >> you sow some doubt, and you create a movement. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> from american politics -- >> steve bannon was the one that i heard say you've got to get involved grass roots. >> it's about dividing this country. >> to the world stage.