Community Outreach

Digitizing, Recording

& Remembering

Black In Appalachia can visit your community to:

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• Conduct oral histories

• Digitize newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, and other materials of personal and historical significance

• Conduct screening and presentations of our documentary films

• Present and discuss our work with your community

Presentations & Interviews

In The Press

"The African American Folklorist: Black in Appalachia"

Western Kentucky University, NPR, April 2021

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"Black in Appalachia: Spreading the Black historical narrative"

Daily Beacon, University of Tennessee, February 2021

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"Stories from Swift Memorial Institute: A Late-HBCU in Appalachia"

Southern Sources - UNC Chapel Hill, January 2021

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"Rewriting the Story of Race in Appalachia"

Yes! Magazine, January 2021

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"Meet The Storytellers Of 'Black In Appalachia”

Scenic Roots, WUTC 88.1FM, October 2020

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"With podcast, ‘Black in Appalachia’ series aims to reach new audiences"

Current, September 2020

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"It's a Banner Day in Kingsport -- Riverview community participates in "Black in Appalachia"

Kingsport Times News, September 2020

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"Black in Appalachia helps to write, share the history of the people"

WATE TV, August 2020

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New podcast explores what it means to be 'Black in Appalachia'

WBIR TV, August 2020

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"Local Emancipation Commemorations Bring Black Communities Closer to the Past"

Atlas Obscura, August 2020

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"Black in Appalachia"

With Good Reason Radio, July 2020

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"Addressing Racism And Passing On Traditions Inside Appalachia"

Inside Appalachia, West Virginia Public Radio, July 2020

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"Finding black spaces: McKinney Center talk covers black history in Appalachia"

Herald & Tribune, June 2020

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"Researching Black Families in the Mountain South topic of discussion"

Newport Plain Talk, February 2020

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"Free event honors Knoxville-born artist Beauford Delaney"

WBIR TV, February 2020

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"Black in Appalachia: A Community History Project" Mountain Talk, WMMT 88.7fm, February 2020

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"Dialogue: The Life and Work of Beauford Delaney" WUOT 91.9fm, February 2020

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"Appalachia Untold: Event highlights the need for remembering and recounting black history"

The Daily Times, January 2020

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"Black in Appalachia: Project Unearths Black History" The Daily Times, January 2020

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"London remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with march"

The Sentinel Echo, January 2020

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"Alum Rebecca Howard Uses History and MSIS Degrees to Archive the Past"

University of Tennessee, October 2019

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"Alum Lauren Cole ('19) Speaks on Practicum with PBS 'Black in Appalachia' Project"

University of Tennessee, July 2019

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"Holding on to History"

Greeneville Sun, February 2018

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"Black in Appalachia - Living History",

Mountain Talk, WMMT 88.7fm, February 2018

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"PBS Documentary to Include Tennessee Picnic"

Newport Plain Talk, April 2016

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"PBS film tells the 80-year story of Rogersville's Swift College"

Kingsport Times-News, February 2015

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