On his family’s farm in Randolph County, West Virginia, 20-year-old Collin Waybright has a hobby that’s very different from streaming TV shows or playing video games. Waybright is one of the state’s youngest falconers. To be a falconer, you have to love birds and Waybright fits the bill. “They all […]
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‘We Deserve a Country that Values All of Our Lives’: Highlander Director Talks COVID, BLM and Racism in America
Activism isn’t something that came to Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson later in life. Woodard Henderson spent most of her youth organizing against mountaintop removal and environmental racism in central and southern Appalachia, and today, at 33, she serves as the co-executive director of one of the most storied civil rights centers […]
Read MoreRural America’s Daily Rate of New Infections Climbs 150% in Last Month
A list of the rural counties with the highest rates of new cases includes many with prisons and meatpacking plants. Many other counties are those with a high proportion of non-whites. The number of new COVID-19 cases reported each day in rural counties has more than doubled in the last […]
Read More100 Days in Appalachia’s Call for Pitches
100 Days in Appalachia began as an experimental pop-up publication, designed to candidly narrate the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency from within the heart of a region dubbed “Trump Country.” In the years since our founding, we have expanded that mission so that today, we tell the political, […]
Read MoreThe Billionaire Governor Who’s Been Sued Dozens of Times for Millions in Unpaid Bills
Gov. Jim Justice is West Virginia’s richest man. Over the last three decades, lawsuits over unpaid bills have cost his constellation of companies more than $128 million in judgments and settlements. Raymond Dye had a buildup of blood behind his left eye that prevented him from seeing. David Polk had an […]
Read MoreOne Worker Dead, More Than 200 Infected As Coronavirus Hits KY Meatpackers
This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. The Kentucky Department for Public Health has confirmed 220 employees at meatpacking plants across Kentucky have tested positive for the coronavirus, with one employee death related to the virus in Louisville. Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services spokeswoman Susan […]
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