“Appalachia has always been a tri-racial society ... each one was viewed as an extra mouth to feed for families living in ...

Appalachia is not ready to be a climate refuge. While I was at a luncheon on rural advocacy in Morgantown recently, the topic ...

Many Black communities in Appalachia struggle to access healthy food. Here’s how to build local rural food systems that reach ...

The best hope for change lies probably in the very young; in contrast to their parents, Appalachia’s children thrive on the attention of anti-poverty workers, flock to games, community projects ...

In 1960, despite the prosperity of the times, almost one-quarter of all American families were living below the poverty line, and entire regions of the country, like central Appalachia ...

However, the pandemic left long-term scars on Appalachian communities. A new report from the Appalachian Regional Commission indicates that for the countless rural people who lost loved ones to ...

There is widespread poverty in affected areas, where at least 33,000 people now have no electricity. The flooding - after torrential rain - caused mudslides and made roads impassable. Appalachia ...