Eastern Kentucky artist Lacy Hale created the phrase for a work of art to protest a neo-Nazi rally in Pikeville, Kentucky. She never expected it to become a rallying cry of anti-racists throughout the Appalachian region. Lacy Hale, 36, grew up in Eastern Kentucky as part of the sixth generation […]
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President Donald Trump took two days to condemn the various white supremacist groups who gathered for demonstrations in Charlottesville that resulted in death and injury. Trump’s initial response the Saturday of the rally and counter protests had been to lay blame “on many sides,” leading to an outcry before his […]
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Appalachia is falling behind the rest of the United States in key health metrics. Financial instability in the region’s health care industry, a devastating opioid crisis that still is unfolding, and ongoing socioeconomic challenges mean that the disparity will likely get worse before it gets better. A study published this […]
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Last year, Jim Justice defied the odds for a Democrat in West Virginia, defeating a Republican by 7 percentage points to become governor even as Donald Trump carried the state by 42 points among the same set of voters in the general election.. On Thursday, Justice defied expectations by dramatically […]
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Forty years ago, President Jimmy Carter signed a law that literally changed the face of Appalachia. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) was intended to replace a state-to-state patchwork of rules for strip-mining with a uniform federal standard. Four decades later, however, environmentalists say the law […]
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Republicans controlled both chambers of the legislative branch but still found themselves divided, struggling to pass a law while a maverick executive kept the press hanging on every word. That could describe what’s playing out in Washington, D.C. — but it also applies to the West Virginia Legislature and Governor […]
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