This film documents the activism for racial equality in Zanesville, Ohio, following the murder of George Floyd. Like many small, rural towns in Ohio, the size of protests and vigils was unprecedented in recent times, and began conversations about systemic iniquities. As was the case in other small towns, organizers […]
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CHESAPEAKE, Ohio — The children at Stephanie Geneseo’s home-based child care center dart around in astronaut helmets while they battle green googly-eyed COVID alien germs, using play to learn about hand washing in a pandemic that shows no signs of letting up. “I want to make it fun so that it […]
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This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org. The pandemic caps a decade of West Virginia’s struggles with Frontier over internet service. In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Andrew Dean, who owns a restaurant and convenience store in […]
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A collection of essays, excerpts, songs and poems covers centuries of reflection on the Southern mountains. A native son traces the history of Appalachian literature through 745 pages of a recently published anthology. If you are one of the hundreds of thousands who have read J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” or maybe even […]
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In the run-up to the 2016 election, Jack Shuler was reporting on poverty – most particularly, how it was being experienced in Ohio – and was disappointed that neither presidential candidate had much to say about entrenched poverty and homelessness. As he delved further into his reporting, he became increasingly […]
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Appalachia has many strengths and faces many challenges. Some of those are addressed in a new book produced by the Ohio Valley ReSource, a public media reporting collaborative made up of reporters from West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. The book is titled “Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What’s Ailing […]
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