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Mtn. Talk: Dollars & Cents
Dollars & Cents: Race and Class in the West Virginia Coalfields is the second installment in the Hope audio series: an interracial documentary project conducted over the past 18 months in Mount Hope, WV. Michael and Carrie Kline, and O.H. Jackson Napier, collected more than 40 life story interviews from children of coal miners. The stories focus on the fabric of what life and work in this small, diverse town was like a half-century ago.
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Join Us! March 31st: Ethical Appalachian Reporting – A Community Conversation
March 23, 2018WMMT & Scalawag Magazine are hosting a community discussion at Appalshop about media coverage of the region (the good, the bad, and everything between) on Saturday, March 31, Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Dollars & Cents
May 23, 2018Dollars & Cents: Race and Class in the West Virginia Coalfields is the second installment in the Hope audio series: an interracial documentary project conducted over the past Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Mother’s Day
May 23, 2018In this show, we celebrate, remember, and reckon with mothers and motherhood. Holiday’s are complicated times for many people, and in this episode Appalshop staff share their Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Behind The Scenes at The Moth
May 10, 2018In this episode we’re learning about The Moth: a live storytelling series that will be here at Appalshop on Thursday May 10th! First, director Jenifer Hixson joins WMMT by Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Community Radio Rocks!
May 9, 2018It's Spring Fund Drive at WMMT, and in this show we’re talking all about radio! What is this thing, and why does it matter? Special guests Neenah Ellis, General Manager of Read More >
Mtn. News: ARC, Health, & What’s Next?
May 4, 2018In this episode, we'll hear recent news from the Ohio Valley ReSource on the new Appalachian Regional Commission appointment, and an outbreak of Hepatitis A in the region. Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Agriculture as Economic Development
May 1, 2018In this episode we bring you three stories focusing on people who believe in the possibilities of agriculture to become part of the solution to the coal economy’s decline in Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Nikky Finney
April 24, 2018In today’s episode, we bring you a 2012 interview with Nikky Finney from Profiles, a show out of Bloomington Indiana’s WFIU station, where they interview notable artists, Read More >
Mtn News: Community Care – Past, Present, & Future
April 19, 2018This week's episode focuses on caring for our communities: past, present, & future. Topics include Child Abuse Prevention Month, community efforts to clean up a historic Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Frank X. Walker
April 19, 2018Our celebration of #NationalPoetryMonth continues! This episode comes from our archives, featuring a 2016 recording of Frank X Walker giving the convocation speech at Alice Read More >
Mtn. Talk: Poor Peoples Campaign
April 17, 2018On this episode of Mountain Talk we bring you audio from a recent event in Benham, Kentucky. On March 29th Reverend Dr. William Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz TheoHarris Read More >
