Coal Black Voices is an intimate mosaic of images, poetry, and storytelling by the Affrilachian Poets as they give glimpses of life in the American Black South and Appalachian region.

"The tape begins with a little girl dancing in place, looking up at the camera, the soundtrack is a sing-song of a child's voice, repeating the word 'keeping..,'

Balladeer, linguist, cultural activist, storyteller, Cratis Williams was an eloquent defender of Appalachian Culture and one of the most important scholars of the post-war era