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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreDay 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 […]
Read More100 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.
Read MoreTyler 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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Why Pittsburgh had two women’s marches: ‘Our Feminism Must Be Intersectional’
On top of a crate nestled in a small children’s wagon, they built their altar. In Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood, […]
Read More‘Dreamland’ author Sam Quinones: Appalachia was ‘the canary in our societal coal mine’ for opioids, Trump
Following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, data journalists, political analysts, armchair pundits and average voters all scrambled to find some way […]
Read MoreHigh school band is mixed on Trump but heads to inauguration
Welcome to the first installment of 100 Days, 100 Voices–a portrait series highlighting diverse voices across Appalachia during the first […]
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