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Brooke Parker (left), a care coordinator for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, is joined by Joe Solomon and Sarah Stone in Charleston, West Virginia. The program is a federal initiative that provides HIV-related services nationwide. Photo: John Raby/AP Photo
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Brooke Parker (left), a care coordinator for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program, is joined by Joe Solomon and Sarah Stone in Charleston, West Virginia. The program is a federal initiative that provides HIV-related services nationwide. Photo: John Raby/AP Photo
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HIV Outbreak Persists as Officials Push Back Against Containment Efforts

Cheat Canyon in West Virginia. Photo: Jesse Wright/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Year In Review

ICYMI: Our Favorite Stories of 2022

John Henry of Charleston, W.Va., walks into a polling place at Weberwood Elementary Saturday, May 14, 2011 in Charleston, W.Va. West Virginia voters head to the polls for the fourth time in 12 months to nomination a Republican and a Democrat candidate to run in October's special gubernatorial election. Photo: Jeff Gentner/AP Photo
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  • Election Watch

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

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  • Election

Voter Poll: Worries over Inflation Dominate Midterm Election

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  • Documenting Hate

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

Loretta Lynn waves to the crowd after performing during the Americana Music Honors and Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, in Nashville, Tennessee. Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter who became a pillar of country music, died on October 4, 2022, at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. She was 90. Photo: Mark Zaleski/AP Photo.
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Remembering the Legacy of the ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ Who Rewrote the Appalachian Narrative

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  • Recovery

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

A church cornerstone in Charleston, West Virginia. ME South churches are located through the central and southern Appalachian region. Photo: Laura Harbert Allen/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Documenting Hate

White Supremacy in White American Christianity, Explained

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  • Energy

Virginia Activists Fight to Protect Green Space from Data Center Development

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  • A Changing Climate

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

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  • Youth in Appalachia

Mountain Grown

Photos from the archives at the Hindman Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky hang from makeshift lines to dry and, hopefully, save. Photo: Erin Reid/Provided
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  • Remembering the Flood

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

A stained glass window in the Mundelein Auditorium on the campus of Loyola University in Chicago. Photo: Sarah Swetlik/RFA Corps member for AL.com
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  • Opinion

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

Kimberly Holley, a member of the Tennessee Task Force One, looks out the window at the devastation massive flooding has caused on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, near Hazard, Kentucky. Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP Photo
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  • Environment

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

A hiker on the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama. Photo: Ivan LaBianca/Daily Yonder
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  • An economy in transition

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

A view of the stage during the Moral March on Washington D.C. The event was sponsored by the Poor People’s Campaign and featured a range of organizations, including mainline Protestant denominations, Labor Unions, and several activist groups representing LGBTQ rights, Black Lives Matter, and even medical professionals advocating for Medicare for All. Photo: Laura Harbert Allen/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Faith in Appalachia

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

FindTreatment.gov is the federal website set up to help people search for and find addiction treatment options in their communities. Photo: Kristen Uppercue/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Recovery Stories

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

People walk among U.S. flags with the U.S. Capitol in the background, Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Washington. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
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  • Guns in Appalachia

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

A postcard image of Mount Zion Baptist Church, dated around 1909. COURTESY: Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society
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  • Black Appalachia

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

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  • Queer Appalachia

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

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  • Tradition

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

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

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

A student group from rural Southwest Virginia takes part in an exercise on water quality at a local community’s drinking water reservoir. Photo: Provided
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  • Commentary

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

Cheat Canyon in West Virginia. Photo: Jesse Wright/100 Days in Appalachia
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Keep Your ‘Elegy’: The Appalachia I Know Is Very Much Alive

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  • Education & Economics

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

From the 1870s through the 1920s, wagons loaded with roots and herbs like this one were a common sight at country stores and herb warehouses in Appalachia. Credit: Buncombe County Special Collections Library
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  • A History of Healthcare

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

An election official places a sign as voters line up outside a polling place at the Fogelsville Volunteer Fire Co., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. Photo: Matt Slocum/AP Photo
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  • Political discourse

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

A wood carving from a newspaper of Frederick Douglass. Photo: Library of Congress
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  • Black Appalachia

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

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

Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo
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  • COVID-19

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

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  • Appalachian Youth Creators

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

Caption/Description: John Wesley AME Zion Church was a former stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves coming through Uniontown on their way north to freedom. Today only a few markers outside and the remnants of a tunnel in the basement of the church. Photo: Justin Hayhurst/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Appalachia

100 Days Hiring RFA Reporter to Cover Religion in Appalachia

Clarksburg is a community of about 15,000 people in North Central, West Virginia. Pictured here in 2019, the once thriving community has been struggling economically over the past several years and has experienced an uptick in substance use. Photo: Jesse Wright/100 Days in Appalachia
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More than a Stereotype: A Young West Virginian Wants a Different Conversation

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  • Coal

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

Parkersburg, West Virginia. Photo: P. Nick Curren/100 Days in Appalachia
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What Drove a West Virginia Democrat to Storm the Capitol on January 6?

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

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Our Top Staff-Picked Stories of 2021

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

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

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  • Appalachian Food

Are Appalachian Foodways at Risk of Being Lost Forever?

Dr. Nora Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. Photo: David Smith/100 Days in Appalachia
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‘Recovery is Possible’: National Addiction Expert Discusses Stigma, Recovery

Elizabeth Hlavinka says her time in the Appalachian Climate Corps had a profound shift on her way of thinking, and that of some of her fellow corps members. Photo: Provided
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  • A Changing Climate

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

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

Kentucky-based photographer Jared Hamilton released the first volume of his zine "Familiar Paths" in 2021. Photo: Jared Hamilton/Provided
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Q&A: Kentucky Documentary-Maker Starts Zine That Evokes Memories of an Appalachian Home

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Virginia Band Bridges Mexico and Appalachia through Mexilachian Music

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Black Appalachian Coalition Aims to Shift Narrative on Energy, Other Issues

Parker McKenzie, 10, right, receives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from nurse practitioner Amy Wahl with distraction help from certified child life specialist Haylee Rogers during the first COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Franklin County for children age 5-11 at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Photo: Paul Vernon/AP Photo
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Q&A: Appalachian Pediatrician Talks COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids

The skyline of Charleston, West Virginia, as viewed from the south bank of the Kanawha RiverPhoto: Tim Kiser/Wikimedia Commons
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Commentary: How Appalachia Educated This Transplant Turned Advocate

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks at a commencement ceremony for nursing students from West Virginia Junior College on April 20, 2018, at Chestnut Ridge Church, in Morgantown. Photo: Jesse Wright/100 Days in Appalachia
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Fact-check: W.Va. Home to Zero Billionaire’s Despite Joe Manchin’s ‘Concerns’ about Billionaire Tax Proposal

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

Photo: Courtesy of Huntington Herald Dispatch Archives, Illustration: David Smith/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Author Perspective

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

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  • Pipelines

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

Students enter the classroom in Godley, Texas, on August 5. Godley is a town of approximately 1,000 residents about 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth. The school district is among the first to open in Texas for the fall term. Photo: AP Photo/ LM Otero
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  • Appalachian Youth Creators
  • COVID-19
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When You Aren’t Old Enough for a Vaccine: An Alabama Sixth Grader on COVID-19

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  • Appalachian Folklore

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

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex to promote his "Build Back Better" agenda, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Kearny, New Jersey. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP Photo
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  • Opinion

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

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  • Music History

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

Photo: Courtesy Hulu
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  • Recovery Stories

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

Matt Carroll has been in recovery for 10 years and advocates for medication in treating the disease of addiction. Federal and medical research supports his position. Photo: Todd Brase/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • COVID-19
  • Recovery Stories

Medication and Recovery: Doctors Say Access to Critical Addiction Care is Difficult in Appalachia

Dr. Jonathan JK Stoltman speaks to a group of West Virginia University journalism students about the importance of language choice in stories about addiction. Photo: Justin Hayhurst/West Virginia University
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  • Recovery

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

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  • Coal

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

Brandon Wallace is a cottage food producer based in Wheeling, West Virginia, who specializes in hand crafted foods that he sells locally. Photo: Christina White/ Provided
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  • COVID-19

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

Kent State University student Jarrett Woo gets his Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination from Kent State nursing student Allie Rodriguez in Kent, Ohio, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Photo: Phil Long/AP Photo
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  • Appalachian Youth Creators
  • COVID-19

COVID Fears, Stress and Anxiety Continue for College Students Back on Campus

Young demonstrators join the International Youth Climate Strike event at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
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  • Commentary

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

Sheila Snyder and her mother, Bobbie Jean Bumgarner, have been overwhelmed by the support from their community. Photo: Taylor Sisk/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • A Changing Climate

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

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  • Alternative Energy

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

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  • Opioid Epidemic

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

Images: Provided, Illustration: David Smith/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Author Perspective

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

Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Photo: David Smith/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Recovery

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

Pendleton Mill in Anderson, South Carolina. Photo: Alana Anton, Provided
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  • Communities

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

This Tuesday, May 8, 2007, file photo shows the logo for pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma at its offices in Stamford, Conn. Photo: Douglas Healey/AP Photo, File
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  • Opioid Epidemic

Commentary: Granting the Sacklers Immunity is a Miscarriage of Justice

Kelley Rankin has been a physical therapist for more than 20 years, living and working in West Virginia. Photo: Molly Humphreys/Healthcare is Human
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  • Healthcare Is Human

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

Connie Dray of West Virginia holds a photo Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, of her cousin Mary Lou Hague, who died in the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as she stands near One World Trade Center while ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary were underway nearby. This was Dray's first time at the ceremonies, saying it was on her list of important things to accomplish, as she also close with Hague's family. Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP Photo
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  • Commentary

Appalachia Remembers: 20 Years Since 9/11

Dani Miller holds a sign during a rally to support unionization efforts outside West Penn hospital on August 3, 2021. Dani’s mother Sam, left, is a second-generation healthcare worker at West Penn. Photo: David Smith/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • A Complicated Resistance

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

A truck carrying Moderna vaccines crashed near Morgantown, W.Va., on Aug. 27. Photo: West Virginia 511
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  • Fact Check

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

Illustration: 100 Days in Appalachia
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  • COVID-19

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

Blair West Virginia in 1921. Photo: Courtesy of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
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  • Forgotten History

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

Book cover provided by WVU Press. Illustration: Jesse Wright/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Author Perspective

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

Williamson, W.Va., has become known as a center for the use of prescription opioid painkillers, which has worsened the outlook for many younger West Virginians. Photo: Tyler Evert/AP Photo
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  • Opioids on trial

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

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  • COVID-19

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

Photo: Arifur Rahman Tushar/Pexels
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  • Recovery Stories

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

Summer's grandparents, Juanita and Clee Conley. Photo: Provided
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  • Appalachian Youth Creators

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

Rev. James Patterson is helping to lead efforts to increase vaccinations throughout West Virginia as the CEO of the Partnership of African American Churches. Photo: Chris Jackson/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • COVID-19

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

Wallens Ridge State Prison can be seen from miles away, nestled in the mountains of southwest Virginia. Photo: Courtesy of Dirk Wiley
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  • Prison-Industrial Complex

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

A retired member of UMWA listens intently to speakers rallying crowd support Brookwood, Alabama, Wednesday, August 4, 2021. Photo: Quez Shipman/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Union Action

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

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  • Infrastructure

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

The Chattooga River near a cane restoration site in Mountain Rest, South Carolina. Photo: Sarah Melotte/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Conservation

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

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  • Work With Us

Now Hiring: Part-time Newsletter Writer

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  • Appalachian Youth Creators
  • Queer Appalachia

Commentary: My Years of Growing Up Queer in Appalachia

A citizen of Asheville speaks to community leaders during a June 17, 2021, Information and Truth Telling Session held as part of the city’s reparations process. Photo: Hunter Rentz/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Race in Appalachia

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

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  • Faith in Appalachia

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

Jeff Leake, head of the Allison Park Church organization in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, was among many in the faith community that faced backlash after making public his COVID-19 vaccination this year. Photo: Chris Jones/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Faith in Appalachia

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

Alison Jeffers and Dallan Phillips work for Scott County Emergency Management Services. The local hospital, Big South Fork Medical Center, is severely underfunded and offers limited emergency services. Clara Terry is taken from the hospital to an air ambulance for a subdural hemorrhage. Photo: Stacey Kranitz/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Critical Condition

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

Dr. Teresa Tyson and the Health Wagon team have started to administer COVID-19 vaccines in this part of Appalachia by traveling door-to-door. Here, Tyson prepares to administer a vaccine to Marty Wells at his home in Norton, Virginia. Photo: Stacy Kranitz/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Critical Condition

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

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  • Domestic Extremism

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

Kendra Winchester is the founder of the Bookstagram account @readappalachia. Photo: Gavin McIntyre/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Appalachian literature

Why You Should @readappalachia

A memorial service for nurse Donna Jean “Goody” Gooslin was attended by a large group of former hospital employees and their families. The service took place in the parking lot in front of the hospital, which overlooks downtown Williamson. As the sun set, the nurses gathered to release balloons and light candles in Gooslin’s honor. Photo: Stacy Kranitz/100 Days in Appalachia
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  • Critical Condition

‘This Isn’t a Dying Coal Town,’ It’s a West Virginia Community Rethinking Health Care and Succeeding

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  • Appalachian Youth Creators
  • Black Lives Matter

Q&A: Two Young Appalachian Activists on the 2020 BLM Movement and What’s Happened in Their Community Since

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