For 90 years, the Highlander Research and Education Center has helped to train laborers, civil rights leaders and social justice activists in Appalachia, across the South, and abroad. Transformational ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A historical marker on Hwy. 41 in Grundy County, Tennessee, marks the turnoff to the former site of Highlander Folk School, which ...

The man accused of starting the fire that destroyed part of the historic Highlander Center seven years ago has plead guilty and will be sentenced this fall. The plea brings some closure to painful ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements was arrested in connection to the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Highlander Research and Education Center is 90 years old. To celebrate, the center marked a key site in East Tennessee that trained several leaders of the Civil Rights Era. A ...

Elizabeth Wright is the communication strategist at the Highlander Center. "There’s a New World Coming” is a song, a promise, and a call to action. It’s also the theme of the Highlander Research and ...

What — or who — sparked the fire that destroyed the main office of the historic Highlander Research and Education Center in Jefferson County remains an unanswered question, eight months later. The ...

More than 60 years after the state of Tennessee confiscated its land on trumped-up charges, the Highlander Research and Education Center will once again own land in Grundy County. The acquisition ...