PENNINGTON GAP, Va. (WJHL) – In the mountains of Pennington Gap, the Appalachian African American Cultural Center houses many historical artifacts and is dedicated to preserving the history of black ...

Settlers in frontier Appalachia felt a sense of community building because of distances they had to travel at Christmas.

I was on a walking tour with Dr. Joseph Fox along Asheville’s Black Cultural Heritage Trail. We stopped in front of the YMI Cultural Center, one of the first Black community centers in the country. We ...

High in the misty hills of Appalachia, where old forests stretch for miles and stories travel easily from one porch to another, symbols have always mattered. Long before modern locks and alarm systems ...

Two cultures, Native American and European, collide in a struggle for control of the mountains. In the conquest of new land, first come the surveyors and mapmakers, including young George Washington, ...

Switching gears now to a story from the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee, home to a population of mixed race people called the Melungeons. That's a term that, decades ago, used to be a derogatory ...

Hi, I'm Carley, and I'm a proud Appalachian. Appalachia is a very specific and often misunderstood region of the South. And yes, while the Appalachian Mountains range from Newfoundland, Canada, to ...

In this excerpt from “Beginning Again,” Nikki Giovanni offers an ode to the great people who call Appalachia home. I will raise my eyes to the mountains; from where will my help come? My help comes ...

A photograph of Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the 2016 memoir from Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, once again began flying ...