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Our guest is Ayesha Rascoe, host of NPR's "Weekend Edition Sunday." She discusses her newly released book, HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience.

We visit with Dr. Bob Miller, still leading an active life at age 105 in Kingsport, Tennessee.

We talk with Autumn Lockwood, Associate Performance Coach with the Philadelphia Eagles. On February 12, 2023, during Super Bowl 57, she made history as the first African American woman to coach in a Super Bowl.

A re-broadcast of our interview with Dr. Bob Miller, a research chemist from Kingsport, Tennessee, who turned 105 in October of 2023.

We talk with Sarah McCammon, a National Political Correspondent for NPR, about her newly released book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.

On a Peace Corps assignment in Zimbabwe, Kingsport, Tennessee, native Mark Overbay observed the making of a peanut butter paste for use in groundnut stews. It was his inspiration, over a decade later, to start Big Spoon Roasters, a company that specializes in hand-crafted nut butters.

We visit the Elizabethton-Carter County Public Library and talk with archivist Joe Penza about the collection of historical items there, as well as a new grant the Archives has received.

In a special fundraising edition of “Vital Voices,” we’re joined by Marat Moore, a writer, photographer, activist, and former coal miner, who speaks about her loyalty to WETS and Public Radio over the years.

It’s a story repeated often in the mountains of Appalachia. A family has to leave the homeplace in search of employment. Missy Jones had to leave her home in Letcher County, Kentucky, for that reason. But in her new home 3 ½ hours away, she pays homage to the cooking of Eastern Kentucky.

We talk with Dr. Evan A. Kutzler from Western Michigan University about an 1898 cookbook that has been revived. He is the editor of From Biscuits to Lane Cake: Emma Rylander Lane’s “Some Good Things to Eat,” a reprint edition published by Mercer University Press in 2023. The Lane Cake was mentioned by Harper Lee in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The Alabama legislature has named it Alabama’s official “state dessert.”