Cancelation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project and a judge’s order to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline injected activists with fresh enthusiasm, but these legal victories are far from being the pipeline’s swan song. Theresa “Red” Terry and her daughter spent 34 days living in the treetops trying to […]
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The Roanoke Tribune has been telling its Black readers their lives matter for more than 80 years. While many newspapers have struggled to adapt to the internet, laying off reporters and editors while shrinking their coverage, the family-owned Roanoke Tribune has persisted through four generations and the destruction of their building during […]
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During the third week of March, as the first positive tests for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, were announced in West Virginia, Fairmont Regional Medical Center permanently closed amid financial troubles and no success in finding a new buyer. The 207 bed acute care facility was the only hospital in […]
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On any given Friday night, a parade of customized cars and trucks cruise from north to south and back again on Williamson Road in Roanoke, Virginia. Modified with neon lights, spinning rims and streamlined spoilers, these vehicles do not necessarily scream “folk tradition”—but they are just the modern version of […]
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Protest runs through the region’s veins like coal seams through the mountains. When a group of Kentucky miners decided to block a coal-laden train from leaving a bankrupt mine in July, they weren’t just laying claim to missing paychecks. The miners in Harlan County won attention across the United States […]
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Army veteran Kyle Chanitz spent two and a half years deployed in Afghanistan, where he saw intense fighting and suffered concussions that led to seizures. When he returned to the U.S., he started taking college classes, but then dropped out to follow the jam band Phish around the country. He […]
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