Affrilachia: Testimonies,” by Chris Aluka Berry sets out to document the Black experience in Appalachia. The book is a ...

Pianist Mildred Ellis composed “Keep Singin'” for her master’s degree nearly a century ago. On Saturday, the Johnson City ...

Photographer Chris Aluka Berry has made it his mission to give voice to the broad spectrum of Affrilachians who have inhabited the region over the centuries. His new book “Affrilachia: Testimonies” ...

With plenty of talk at the federal level recently about demographics, a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington shows us maybe we should be ...

Street flooding will ensue by early afternoon Saturday with small streams rising by day’s end. Flash flooding on Saturday ...

The National Weather Service office in Morristown, Tennessee, has issued a flood watch from Friday night through Sunday morning for Wise County, including Appalachia, Big Stone Gap, Coeburn and Norton ...

Christian Hayes made his Grand Ole Opry debut the first weekend in February. He talks about that and more with American Songwriter.

Counter Intuitive Records has a lot to celebrate, as it's coming up on its 10th anniversary in September; celebrating Black ...

Among the idyllic landscapes of Mount Ulla, North Carolina, there is a sadness wafting through the community where two mules ...

When Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and East Tennessee State University alumna Amythyst Kiah shared her Appalachian story ...

Frank X Walker, a groundbreaking poet, educator, and literary advocate has earned a spot in the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame ...