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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Standing at the base of “The Hole,” a gargantuan rock formation in West Virginia’s New River Gorge, you can hear water coming down the mountainside, rushing to the river below. Looking up, you’d see the rock shooting hundreds of feet overhead, curving as it goes, to form an imposing-looking overhang. […]
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Videos of confrontations—and sometimes outright fights—at restaurants have made their rounds on the internet. But rarely does one see the intentional space created at these fast food chains to bring people together. A family-owned biscuit dive in North Carolina, known for its warm and buttery biscuits, does just that. At […]
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In this op-ed, writer Holly Genovese explains how people of color who live in rural spaces often face erasure. In 1966, activist Stokely Carmichael popularized the term “Black Power” while organizing in rural Mississippi, though the term is now almost exclusively associated with the Northeast and West Coast. I’m a […]
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