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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

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