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How Black Lung Looks From Here
This week on Mountain Talk we explore how black lung looks from right here in Eastern Kentucky. Benny Becker of the Ohio Valley Resource and WMMT brings us 3 pieces. The first is Fighting For Breath where Dr. James Brandon Crum diagnoses a man with black lung. Dr. Crum lives in Pike County...Read More ▶How Black Lung Looks From Here
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WMMT FALL FUND DRIVE October 16-26
WMMT 88.7 FM is Mountain Community Radio, ran by real people, like YOU! Our goal is to raise $20,000 for real people radio. OCTOBER 16-26, 2017 Pre-Fund Drive ONLINE ONLY OFFER Give online BEFORE October 16, get your premium AND be entered to WIN Tell It On the Mountain an out of circulation audio treasure...Read More ▶WMMT FALL FUND DRIVE October 16-26
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AMI Wins Big at 2017 Boone Film Festival
Appalachian Media Institute youth filmmakers Aaron Combs and Oliver Baker won first prize at the Boone Film Festival’s Youth Film Series for their documentary Justice For All, which tells the story of community perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, shining a light on the realities of racial justice in a rural, predominantly white...Read More ▶AMI Wins Big at 2017 Boone Film Festival
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Appalshop in San Francisco as YBCA 100!
Appalshop: Roots & Wings of Rural-Urban Placemaking Monday, October 30th 6-8 pm CAAM/ Ninth Street Independent Film Center Sponsored by Appalshop, The Center for Asian American Media, and The Alliance for Media Arts & Culture Appalshop is coming to San Francisco as a 2017 YBCA 100 lister “shaping the future of culture”, and we want...Read More ▶Appalshop in San Francisco as YBCA 100!
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Preserving Family Archives in Letcher County
During Letcher County’s 2017 Mountain Heritage Festival, Appalshop Archive invited local residents to bring family heritage items to the historic Dawahares Building in Whitesburg, KY for free digitization. Participants presented an array of photographic prints, color slides, family documents and news clippings for scanning, and 3-dimensional objects such as framed photos and an heirloom...Read More ▶Preserving Family Archives in Letcher County
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Announcing Oakley Fugate’s Fellowship!
The Appalachian Media Institute is proud to share exciting news about one of our favorite filmmakers! Oakley Fugate, long-term AMI intern, Peer Trainer, Photographer & Filmmaker was recently selected as one of Open Society Foundations’ Youth Exchange Fellows!Read More ▶Announcing Oakley Fugate’s Fellowship!
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Sharing the 29th Annual Summer Documentary Institute
The Appalachian Media Institute (AMI), Appalshop’s award-winning youth media program, is proud to share the powerful work of our 2017 cohort of Summer Documentary Institute interns. Each summer for the past 29 years, the Summer Documentary Institute (SDI) has invited […]Read More ▶Sharing the 29th Annual Summer Documentary Institute
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Internet in Rural America
It’s been a big year for Internet in the coalfields, and across rural Appalachia, with citizens demanding better Internet access and high speed Broadband, and some policy makers in DC saying rural America doesn’t need it. In this episode of WMMT’s Mountain News & World Report, Benny Becker brings us stories of people who...Read More ▶Internet in Rural America
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Wendell Berry’s Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
In the days following September 11, 2001, Kentucky author and farmer Wendell Berry wrote Thoughts in the Presence of Fear. With rural Kentucky as a backdrop, Herb E. Smith put Wendell’s words to film, adding an interview on the relevancy of his essay, years later. “What you hope for is that these things you...Read More ▶Wendell Berry’s Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
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SOAR Calls For “Faith And Grit”
The 4th SOAR – Shaping Our Appalachian Region – Summit was held in Pikeville on August 4 and over 1,200 listened to Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, Rep. Hal Rogers, and featured speaker UK Basketball Coach John Calipari as they each laid out their visions for eastern Kentucky’s future and how to get there. WMMT...Read More ▶SOAR Calls For “Faith And Grit”
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Community Archives and the Future
What does the past have to do with a more just and equitable future? How can community-based archives preserve and disseminate marginalized histories? These themes were explored through an archivist-led track at the 19th annual Allied Media Conference (AMC), a Detroit-based gathering of community of filmmakers, radio producers, technologists, youth organizers, writers, entrepreneurs, and...Read More ▶Community Archives and the Future
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