Black in Appalachia: No Neutral Ground

09/24/21 • 46 min

In this episode we're talking about the history of confederate monuments, their removal and impact on our educational landscape with C.J. Hunt the director of Neutral Ground. Neutral Ground documents New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause.

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Black in Appalachia: Lift Every Voice and Sing

Black in Appalachia was invited to speak at ArtsBuild Chattanooga’s Equity in the Arts Conference held on September 10, 2021. This episode is a live recording where Enkeshi and Alona discuss shifting the power in equity conversation from funders to cultural workers and artists. We center the communities as those with the power and highlight how their creative and cultural practices transform the world. To help us, we talk with Chattanooga native Roland Carter whose arrangement of The Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, is the most widely known.

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Black in Appalachia: The Harlan Renaissance

Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin talks with the Godfather of Blacks in Appalachia, Dr. William H. Turner about his new book, "The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns." The Harlan Renaissance invites readers into what might be an unfamiliar Appalachia: one studded by large and vibrant Black communities. Difficult choices for the future were made as parents considered the unpredictable nature of Appalachia’s economic realities alongside the unpredictable nature of a national movement toward civil rights.