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100 Days in Appalachia Coverage of Tucker County Power Plant Wins Report for America Award
Reporter Laura Harbert Allen’s coverage of the debate surrounding a proposed power plant in Tucker County, West Virginia, has been honored by Report for America. The nonprofit that places reporters in ...
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County, West Virginia. Davis was soon to start his current job pastoring five United Methodist churches ...
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Front Porch Politics: JD Vance, Tim Walz, and Appalachian masculinity.
From an attempted assassination and an historic withdrawal from the race, the 2024 election has already had more twists and turns than an Aaron Sorkin screenplay. I should be forgiven, then, for how ...
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Holler, Y’all and Appalachian Drawls: My Childhood of Code Switching in Appalachia
When I was in elementary school, a teacher told me that I needed to speak “properly.” She said my twang made me sound unintelligent. When I began serving on a state leadership board for high school ...
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Front Porch Politics: GOP Attacks on Appalachian Campus DEI Efforts Are About More than Universities
I became president of the Outlet Alliance, our version of what was then popularly known as a gay-straight alliance, my freshman year at Western Kentucky University. I held this position for three ...
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Documenting the Appalachian Intifada: A Review of ‘So Much to be Angry About’
Liberation movements around the world and throughout history have always created our own media: to tell our own stories, to teach our own people and to strengthen our movements and organizations. In ...
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‘An Ecosystem of Dysfunction:’ West Virginia Still Has a Child Welfare Worker Shortage, and It’s Taking a Toll on Foster Kids and Families
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‘Harm Reduction Saves Lives’: Meet the Appalachians Doing the Work
Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. The numbers are now frighteningly familiar: ...
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Hillbilly Horror: Reckoning With a Genre 15 Years After ‘Wrong Turn’
“You’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you’ve tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal ...
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Experts: Peer Recovery Is Valuable Yet Under Sourced Resource in Addiction Treatment
Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. There is no simple roadmap to recovery from ...
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Review: An Anthology of Appalachian Literature Walks on New Ground
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 ...