The Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) was founded in 1969 by Appalachian migrants in Cleveland, Ohio. Gathering in Eastern Kentucky on Memorial Day, the EKSC has been a means for continued connection and reunion for Black families, schools and churches with roots in and through the region.

An East Tennessee PBS production detailing the history of the 8th of August as Emancipation Day for the region. For more information see: https://www.blackinappalachia.org/8th-of-august

Thanks to the support of the Center for Appalachian Studies at UVA-Wise and the decades of research by Preston Mitchell, on May 12th, 2022, a group of historians, volunteers and descendants of Freedman Dan Richmond gathered to assist in the ground penetrating radar of the cemetery located on the grounds of this historic Black settlement site.

Black in Appalachia & East Tennessee PBS present a short biography of the Knoxville-born artist Beauford Delaney.

In late March of 1891, an argument at Cumberland Gap saloon led to the fatal shooting of John Burkes & the extra judicial murder of Thomas Hunter.

Elliot Jaspin, the author of "Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America", talks about the events that led up to the entire Black population being driven out of Erwin, Tennessee in May of 1918.

The American Songster, Dom Flemons is joined by Rene Rodgers of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum and Lonnie Salyer, president of the Appalachian Cultural Music Association to discuss the life, times and impact of Lesley Riddle on what would eventually be called Country Music.

On July 14th, 1879 Lucian (also listed as Lucius) Weaver was the victim of an extrajudicial murder by a group of men in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Weaver was accused of assaulting Mrs. Sallie Stipes-Howell the wife of John Howell at their home in rural Jefferson County.

In 1894 a group of prominent citizens of Scott County, Virginia organized themselves into a vigilante gang to rid the area of houses of ill repute. In their pursuit, these White Caps eventually arrived at the home of Samuel Woods where tragedy would occur.