“To be an Appalachian American Arab Muslim … that’s a big title. I feel like I’m wearing so many hats at the same time.” Malak Khader of Huntington, West Virginia finds herself constantly fighting stereotypes about her religion and her home state. She started a multiethnic Girl Scout Troop at […]
Read More
“I hope he becomes a God-serving young man, that he loves everybody as God loves us.” Jakari’s favorite food is chicken nuggets. His favorite word is “No.” He likes to play basketball with his mini-basketball hoop and watch “Blaze and the Monster Machines” and “PAW Patrol.” At age 2, and […]
Read More
The weekend of July 29, 2017 brought the first gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer festival to Wheeling, West Virginia with several hundred attending the Ohio Valley Pride. We talked to some of the attendees about why they came to the event: “Today, I was around people like me. I […]
Read More
Newport, Va. – The proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline has not been approved, much less built, but it is as real as the wooden stakes already in the ground to mark its probable path. The 42-inch diameter natural gas pipeline would start in West Virginia’s Marcellus and Utica Shale drilling region […]
Read More
It’s going to affect our businesses for a very long time — probably forever. Georgia Haverty: It kind of snuck up on me. Slowly. First I heard ‘pipeline’ and went, ‘Oh’. Then I heard, ‘42-inch-wide pipeline.’ Then I heard that MVP has never built one this big… It’s like hearing […]
Read More
If I can’t drink the water, the cows can’t drink the water. We’re out of it. And subsequent generations are out of it. — Judy Ellison Warren Ellison: I’m one of seven and the youngest of seven. I’m a World War II veteran and served on Okinawa. I’ve farmed here all […]
Read More