Latest News — 100 Days in Appalachia

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

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

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

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

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

Why You Should @readappalachia

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

Review: Book Details Overlooked Black Experience in Appalachian Coal Camps

Commentary: For This Queer Foster Parent, Love is Homemade, No Matter What My Lawmakers Say

Q&A: A Black Journalist Turned Community Organizer Shares the Lessons They’ve Learned on How to Make Our Coverage of Race Equitable, Not Extractive

New Film ‘Holler’ Sheds Light on Struggles of Being Young in Appalachia

You Want to Understand Joe Manchin? You Have to Understand West Virginia Politics First.

To All the Morels We Found Before: On Finding Morels – and Finding Yourself – in Appalachia

Evictions at a Kentucky Trailer Park Highlight Appalachia’s Lack of Affordable Housing

Commentary: Poetry Gives Words to the Language of Survival for Appalachians

Commentary: Whether It’s Floyd’s Death or an Opioid Crisis, When the Defense Relies on Victim Blaming, Racism and Stigma Persist

Gayle Manchin Takes Helm of Appalachian Regional Commission as First West Virginian to Lead

‘An Ordinary Age’: A Q&A with Author Rainesford Stauffer on New Book and Young Adulthood

As Formerly Incarcerated People Return to Their Communities in W.Va., This Network of ‘Resource Brokers’ Is There to Guide Them

Essential Appalachia: When a Pandemic Changes Everything, This Is What We Hold Dear

‘You Can’t Google It’: The Exact Science of Appalachian Pull Candy

Reporting Locally on Domestic Extremism? Here’s How to Not Platform Their Violence, A Case Study

‘Rich, White, Reactionary’: A J.D. Vance Candidacy is a Con for Appalachia – Opinion

Bankrupt Purdue Pharma Spending Thousands to Keep West Virginia Court Records Secret

Holler, Y’all and Appalachian Drawls: My Childhood of Code Switching in Appalachia

Healthcare is Human: The Security Guard Who’s a Steady Presence in a Chaotic Pandemic

Here’s What the Federal Pause to Johnson & Johnson Vaccines Means for Central Appalachia

Commentary: For a Generation of Appalachians, COVID-19 Has Delayed Our Dreams. But We See the Light.

A ‘Fly on the Wall’: The West Virginian Who Chronicled State History for Five Administrations

Appalachian Youth Poetry: bloom

How Biden’s $2T Infrastructure Plan Will Impact Central Appalachia

TikTok and the Appalachian Aesthetic: What the Video Platform Means for the Region

These Appalachian Lawmakers are Working to Protect Black Mothers in the Region and Beyond

Meet the W.Va. Woman Who Took on Sexism to Break Barriers in the Legal Field – in the 1920s

Pandemic-Fueled Homebuying Puts New Pressure On Appalachia’s Real Estate Market

This N.C. Family Is Taking a ‘Gamble’ on Farming in Appalachia

W.Va. Lawmakers Remain Desperate to Prop Up the Dying Coal Industry. Residents are Paying the Cost With Higher Electric Bills.

Documenting the Appalachian Intifada: A Review of ‘So Much to be Angry About’

Q&A: Investigation Finds Rural North Carolina Lacks Necessary Care for Sexual Assault Survivors

Commentary: Why Small Towns Need Student Journalists

Commentary: In Appalachia, Women are the Change Our Communities Need

National Media Are Platforming Domestic Extremists, Leaving Local Journalists to Deal with the Fall Out. Here’s How We Can Do Better.

Local Economists Weigh In On Biden’s Recovery Plan for Region

Commentary: The Pandemic Pushed Me to Revisit Friendships That Fell Apart

‘The Opioid Epidemic and U.S. Culture’: New Book Sheds Light on Expressive Culture and Its Protests of Isolating Language Regarding Addiction

Vaccine Equity Is ‘North Star,’ Feds Say, and Clinics Are Key to Fair Distribution

Commentary: New Uses For Former Mine Lands Stop at Economic Potential, But Appalachian Species Are Thriving on Rehabilitated Sites

As COVID-19 Damages Black Appalachian Communities, This Mother, Daughter Team Are Working to Save an Unexpected Casualty: Black History

Analysis of Arrests Supports Scholars Who Say Political Extremism Is Not Rural Phenomenon

Horror Podcast ‘Old Gods of Appalachia’ Keeps Appalachian History and Folklore Alive Through Its Tales of the Undead

Commentary: Gun Violence Has Defined Gen Z’s School Life. Will the Capitol Breach Change Anything?

More Appalachians Are Dying from ‘Deaths of Despair.’ And COVID-19 Is Making It Worse.

5 Ways Biden Can Help Rural America Thrive and Bridge the Rural-Urban Divide

Black Lives In Red States: Art And Life Converge For Two Women In A Tumultuous Year

Commentary: A Coming of Age Reflection on Masculinity, Asexuality in the Mountain South

Commentary: Biden Shouldn’t Forget His Promise to Alleviate Student Loan Debt

Poll Finds Rural Residents More Hesitant to Get Vaccinated

Listen: Us & Them Podcast Feature 100 Days Reporting on BLM

Commentary: Remote Learning Highlights Inequities in Public Education. But A Premature Return to In-Person Learning Could Be Worse.

Here are the Voices the Giant Drug Distributors Don’t Want You to Hear

You Asked, We Answer: What Really Happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6?

A New Generation of Appalachian Jewish Farmers Is Going Way Back to the Land

Commentary: White Privilege Stormed the Castle, Er, Capitol