Reclaiming and Revitalizing Resources in West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields
The demand for clean water in McDowell County is but one element of a groundswell of community-based activism to reclaim and revitalize resources.
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been taken from them.
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Day One: The Inauguration
On Jan. 20, tens of thousands of people flooded Washington, D.C. to watch the pomp and circumstance of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Local law enforcement agencies estimated that more than 200,000 people had tickets to the inauguration. This turnout […]
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100 Days, 100 Voices, Redux
We need the world to hear us when we say firmly: This moment is about so much more than the rise of Trump.
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Tyler Childers’ Appalachia: How the Country Singer Challenges our Relationships with Addiction and Religion
Not only has Childers reformed how Appalachians think about addiction and religion, but he’s re-cast the way the rest of the country views our story too.
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New Research Challenges Idea Behind ‘Deaths of Despair’
Low-income Americans are dying at a higher rate than high-income Americans. In fact, the life span of low-income Americans is […]
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Tobacco Use Among High School Students is Skyrocketting. The Likely Culprit is E-Cigarettes.
In one year, from 2017 to 2018, tobacco usage among American youth skyrocketed by almost 40 percent. The culprit? E-cigarettes. The trend […]
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Listen: Going Home for My Small Town’s First LGBTQ Pride
This piece was originally published in Scalawag, which amplifies the voices of activists, artists, and writers reckoning with the South. You […]
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