June Lockhart, actor known for "Lassie" and "Lost in Space," dies at 100 College Football World Lost for Words Over ...

I'm Farai Chideya, and this is NEWS & NOTES. In some ways, Troy Coleman looks like your average cowboy. He's tall and wears an oversized hat, big boots and a shiny belt buckle. But this Texan is ...

The documentary “Up the Ridge” takes a sobering look at how a rural community in Southwest Virginia embraced the prison industry after the town’s primary employer, a coal company, went out of business ...

Explore the unique origin story of Hick Hop, the genre that fuses country music with hip hop. Musk officially steps down from DOGE after wrapping work streamlining government A popular college major ...

It began when prisoners from urban jails were moved to new "supermax" facilities in rural Appalachia. The racial tension between white corrections officers and black inmates could be felt throughout ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) - Some call the unusual blend of rural and urban music hillbilly hip-hop. Others call it hick-hop. The collaboration of banjos, fiddles and drums set to a beat that would leave a ...

WHITESBURG, Ky. - Some call the unusual blend of rural and urban music hillbilly hip-hop. Others call it hick-hop. The collaboration of banjos, fiddles and drums set to a beat that would leave a ...

DALLAS - Cowboy Troy can't walk into a concert venue without turning heads. He knows there's no way a 6-foot-5-inch black country rapper can escape the curious stares. Especially when he's wearing a ...

On the surface, country music might not seem to have a whole lot in common with genres like hip-hop and R&B. For one thing, the latter two styles are more often associated with city life, while ...

Colt Ford is a little bit rap, rock and hip-hop, but if you ask him, he’s 100 percent country. “Most people listen to all kinds of stuff. They don’t just listen to one thing,” said Ford, aka former ...