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Appalachian Spoken Word and Hip Hop
by John Bealle In several key sites in the Appalachian region, there is a movement rising to develop spoken word arts from urban African American tradition as a means to foster social change, communit...
Appalachia: Stay Or Go?
Blog by Rosie Carpenter Rosie Carpenter serves as UACC’s new Volunteer Coordinator, through the AmeriCorps Program. Rosie has a BA in Anthropology with certificates in Historic Preservation and Heri...
Ringin’ in an Appalachian New Year: A Cultural Celebration
by Rosie Carpenter On Sunday, January 14th the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition will be hosting its annual Ringin’ in the Appalachian New Year. This event will be held at The Sanctuary, 2110 St...
Affrilachian Writer Crystal Wilkinson Visits UACC Salon December 7
by Rosie Carpenter “Imagine a tree, a bird in the tree, the hills, the creek, a possum, the dog chasing the possum. Imagine yourself a woman who gathers stories in her apron.” In this opening sent...
AppalAsian Poet Lisa Kwong visits UACC Literary Salon November 2
THIS ABC (APPALACHIAN-BORN CHINESE) WOMAN She’s a middle child, middle finger to the fortune cookie, born in Radford, heart of the New River Valley. Never fully Chinese, she devoured sausage ...
UACC Literary Salons: Bringing Folks Together Through Words
By Pauletta Hansel. Pauletta is a Core Member of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition and Cincinnati’s Poet Laureate. Her newest collection of poetry, Palindrome, will be launched in a UACC spo...
King Records and the Appalachian Migration
The beginning of King Records in Cincinnati and how the Appalachian Migration had a hand in it by Brian Powers Brian Powers is a librarian at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and i...
The Bluegrass Music Heritage of Southwestern Ohio
By Matthew Smith Matthew Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Miami University’s Hamilton campus. He has developed and taught a course there on the history of Appalachian culture ...
“Restitching the Seams” – The Appalachian Studies Association 2018 Conference
by John Bealle Imagine a thousand of the brightest minds of Appalachia – scholars, writers, activists, artists – coming to Cincinnati. This will happen in April of 2018 when UACC hosts the annual ...
Appalachian Culture Month
by Omope Carter Daboiku Omope Carter Daboiku is a wordsmith, actress and storyteller based in Dayton and Cincinnati. A folklorist with specialties in African, Affrilachian, Appalachian, and Native Ame...
Something’s Wrong Here, We Need to Right It
By Bonnie Neumeier Bonnie Neumeier is a long-time advocate for Black and Appalachian urban core neighborhoods in Cincinnati. She has witnessed the decline of these residential neighborhoods over the...
John Pepper, Jr.: Personal Reflections on “Hillbilly Elegy” by J. D. Vance
John Pepper, Jr., grew up in the coal town of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, attended Yale University, and was CEO and later Chairman of the Board of Procter & Gamble Corporation. He is widely recogniz...
Restitching the Seams
by Jeffrey Stec This video by Jeffrey Stec chronicles the closure of the Urban Appalachian Council and its rebirth as the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition. It includes interviews with Mike Malone...
UACC Remembers: The Main Street Bible Center
by Dale Marie Prenatt This blog post by UACC intern Dale Marie Prenatt initiates our “UACC Remembers” series on the event Urban Appalachia Lost and Found. Held in 2015, the event opened th...
Child Poverty Community Conversation with Urban Appalachians
Intro by Jeffrey Stec; transcriptions by Dale Marie Prenatt. On June 22, 2016, UACC hosted a “community conversation” for the City of Cincinnati Child Poverty Collaborative. While the Coll...
Urban Appalachians in Jonathan Bradshaw’s Dissertation
During his several years in the Cincinnati area, Jonathan Bradshaw contributed immeasurably to the Appalachian renaissance that emerged with the formation of UACC. He was a stalwart trooper for our ca...
The Frank Foster Memorial Library on Appalachian Immigrants: Once and Future
by Mike Maloney Dr. Frank Foster was a Presbyterian minister and educator. Before coming to Cincinnati, he had run a missionary school in the North Carolina mountains and had been a professor of educa...
Urban Appalachians Join the Cincinnati Child Poverty Collaborative
By Katie Trauth Taylor On Saturday, June 25th, a crowd of nearly 600 people participated in the Cincinnati Child Poverty Collaborative Summit held at Xavier University’s Cintas Center. The summit in...