When Asheville, North Carolina’s City Council passed a resolution in favor of reparations for its Black citizens in July of last year, the initiative gained national attention. Multiple thinkpieces from national media outlets pondered if the city – the first in Appalachia and the South to address reparations and the […]
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In the early morning of August 4, 1917, a gas explosion ripped through the southern end of the West Kentucky Coal Company’s No. 7 mine in Clay, Kentucky, killing 62 of the 153 men below ground. It remains the deadliest mining disaster in Kentucky history. The tragedy did not end […]
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On a hazy morning in early August, palliative care nurse Kelly Graham stood on the corner of Biltmore Avenue within a mile of downtown Asheville to participate in a national day of action organized by National Nurses United. She hoped to join the union in just six weeks. Behind her […]
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“There’s a lot that makes West Virginia and the surrounding areas mysterious,” Sean McCracken tells me in between puffs on his pipe. “The mountains themselves are mysterious, because, half the time, you never know what’s around the next corner.” McCracken, a West Virginia native, knows the region’s mysteries better than […]
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