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

"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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Want a visit or a presentation from Black in Appalachia in your community?

Contact

Project Director, William Isom II info[at]blackinappalachia.org