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HIV Outbreak Persists as Officials Push Back Against Containment Efforts

ICYMI: Our Favorite Stories of 2022

Voting is Safe Across Appalachia. Here’s What to Do if Somebody Tries to Change That.

Voter Poll: Worries over Inflation Dominate Midterm Election

White Supremacy and White Christianity, An Interview with Author Robert P. Jones

Remembering the Legacy of the ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ Who Rewrote the Appalachian Narrative

Experts: Peer Recovery Is Valuable Yet Under Sourced Resource in Addiction Treatment

White Supremacy in White American Christianity, Explained

Virginia Activists Fight to Protect Green Space from Data Center Development

In Virginia’s Internet Corridor, Climate Targets and Data Center Growth Collide

Mountain Grown

‘What Could I Have Saved?’: Eastern KY Floods Took Our Present, But Also Our Past

Why the Religion Beat? Reporting on Faith Can Protect Our Democracy

Kentucky Flooding Tests Faith-based Disaster Response in Appalachia as Church Membership Declines

How Appalachia Is Growing Its Outdoor Economy Through Collaborations and Capacity Building

Power and Faith: These Two Religious Coalitions Can Teach Us A Lot about American Politics Today

The Federal Website That’s Supposed to Help ‘Find Treatment’ Needs Work, Experts Say

Why the Gun Safety Bill that Congress Might Pass Won’t Affect West Virginians

In SE Ohio, Community Reflects on Black History Preservation, Its Importance to Democracy

Review: ‘Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place’

A Taste of Home – How Pinto Beans And Cornbread Became an Appalachian Tradition

‘Ginseng Diggers’: A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia

After the Deluge: Remembering the Stories the Flood Could Not Wash Away

The ‘Divisive’ School Lessons States Are Outlawing Have Been Improving Appalachian Education for Generations

Keep Your ‘Elegy’: The Appalachia I Know Is Very Much Alive

Appalachian Virginia Needs Workers. This Program Is Trying to Bring Them In.

Ginseng and Big Pharma: How Appalachia Built an Industry that Would Later Exploit It

Opinion: What the Left Doesn’t Understand about Rural America

A Historian’s Work to Tell the Largely Forgotten Stories of Frederick Douglass and Central Appalachia

Commentary: Instead of Raging Over ‘Maus,’ Support Local People Who Are Fighting the Ban

COVID-19 Didn’t Cause Appalachia’s Housing Crisis, But Advocates Say It Exacerbated It

Opinion: There’s a Critical Need for Equity in Care, Education for Neurodivergent Kids in Appalachia

100 Days Hiring RFA Reporter to Cover Religion in Appalachia

In Appalachia and the Southwest, Indigenous Organizers Want a new Economy for Their Coalfield Communities

What Drove a West Virginia Democrat to Storm the Capitol on January 6?

Mandelo’s Debut Novel ‘Summer Sons’ Explores Gender, Fuel and Ghosts in the Blood

Our Top Staff-Picked Stories of 2021

The Appalachian Pastor Who Created a Diverse Congregation in an Overwhelmingly White Community

Affrilachian Poet Bernard Clay Discusses New Collection ‘English Lit’ and His Appalachian Roots from an Urban Upbringing

Are Appalachian Foodways at Risk of Being Lost Forever?

‘Recovery is Possible’: National Addiction Expert Discusses Stigma, Recovery

Opinion: My Time in the Appalachian Climate Corps Changed My Thoughts on Stewardship, the Region

Two Strikes and Two Union Drives Signify Labor Unrest in Central Appalachia

Q&A: Kentucky Documentary-Maker Starts Zine That Evokes Memories of an Appalachian Home

Virginia Band Bridges Mexico and Appalachia through Mexilachian Music

Q&A: Appalachian Pediatrician Talks COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids

Commentary: How Appalachia Educated This Transplant Turned Advocate

Fact-check: W.Va. Home to Zero Billionaire’s Despite Joe Manchin’s ‘Concerns’ about Billionaire Tax Proposal

Commentary: A Key to Solving Appalachia’s Mental Health Crisis? Culturally-responsive Care.

‘A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers’: W.Va. Author’s New Book Recounts History Amid Resurgence of Labor Organizing

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is Dead. But for Some W.Va. Landowners, It Lives on

Q&A: The West Virginian Keeping Appalachian History Alive Through Storytelling

Commentary: Biden’s Climate Change Proposal and its Appalachian Consequences

A Visionary’s Beat Goes on at this West Virginia Steelpan Drum Company

What Hulu’s Newest Series Won’t Show You: A Virginia Community Solving Its Opioid Crisis

Commentary: Here’s How You Can Improve Reporting on Addiction

Steel-Making Coal Upturn Brings New Mine, Old Problems to WV Community

As COVID-19 Challenged Almost Every Industry, Appalachian Cottage Producers Found Ways to Thrive

‘A Life-defining Year’: We’re Marking One Year of Publishing the Stories of Appalachian Youth

‘It Just Roared’: N.C. Flooding Another Sign of Climate Change in Appalachia

Meet the Virginia Conservationist Trying to Turn Old Coalfields Into Solar Farms

Q&A: A Health Reporter on Challenging Addiction Stigma Through Ethical Journalism

Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley Jones is Youngest, First Black Poet Named to Post

Journalism About Addiction Often Perpetuates Stigma. So, We’re Going to Fix It.

Commentary: Appalachia Can Prove Company Towns Don’t ‘Lift the Working Class’

Commentary: Granting the Sacklers Immunity is a Miscarriage of Justice

When Your Work Is Hands-on and In-Person, One PT Says COVID Was a Huge Challenge

Appalachia Remembers: 20 Years Since 9/11

In Pittsburgh, Union Membership is Changing, Forcing the Unions of Our Past to Learn to Serve Workers’ Needs Today

Did a Truck Carrying Moderna Vaccine Crash? And Did the Pentagon Handle the Recovery?

Appalachian Poison Centers Caution Against Treating COVID-19 with Animal Dewormer

Remembering the Stories of Those Who Gave Their Lives at Blair Mountain

‘There Was A Code of Silence’: Re-Release of Oral Histories as Book Marks Centennial of Pivotal Battle of Blair Mountain

While One West Virginia Town Waits for an Opioid Verdict, Others Still Wait for Their Day in Court.

As COVID-19 Rapidly Spreads, Kentucky Health Departments Work with the National Guard to Vaccinate at Home

‘It Doesn’t Have to Be the End’: A Personal Account of Addiction and Hope in Appalachia

Commentary: What My Mamaw Has Taught Me about Women’s Labor and the Appalachian Matriarchy

West Virginia Once Led in COVID Vaccinations. Now, It’s Looking to ‘Trusted Voices’ to Overcome High Hesitancy.

Commentary: The Far-Reaching Effects of the Carceral State on Appalachian Communities

Photos: Alabama Union Miners Enter Fourth Month of Strike, Thousands Rally for Wages and Benefits

Five Months Later, Eastern Kentuckians are Still Coping with Fallout of Spring Flooding

The Straining of North Carolina’s Chattooga River and the Indigenous Artform that Could Save It

Now Hiring: Part-time Newsletter Writer

Asheville Leaders Said They Wanted Reparations. One Year Later, Progress Has Been Slow at Best.

Christians Are Politically Divided. Two Pittsburgh Seminaries Explain How They’re Readying Pastors for the Minefield.

Political Conflicts Are Escalating in Sanctuaries of Southwestern PA Churches. Can They Heal?

Rural Tennessee is Losing More Hospitals Than Anywhere in the Country, But COVID-19 Isn’t Fully to Blame

In Southwest Virginia, Reestablishing a Rural Hospital System Requires Rebuilding Trust

Six Months After Capitol Riot, 46 From Central Appalachia Face Charges

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