I have been a grassroots community organizer in the South for nearly 20 years, a region with a long legacy of working-class movements. As the director of the Appalachia People’s Union, a project ...

Appalachia has long given more than it has received. Our coal-fueled industries. Our timber-built cities. Our labor powered a nation. But what’s often left behind after the extraction is over ...

Rousseau was a repeat entrant in the prestigious Dijon Prize contests and actually won the coveted award a second time in 1754 for his “Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men.” In ...

By filling the vacuum of recognition of Appalachia, he used the region to his and the Republican Party’s benefit without actually helping it.

Here & Now 's Asma Khalid speaks with the musicians of the duo Larry & Joe — made up of Larry Bellorín and Joe Troop — about their new album that combines the folk music and instruments of Venezuela ...

So, with all of the media surrounding JD Vance and the negative portrayal of "Appalachia" and its people in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, as well as the Netflix film adaption, I thought now would ...

Printz hopes “Layers of Liberty” can begin to correct ingrained perspectives regarding Appalachia, particularly as the region becomes a political talking point in the run-up to the 2024 election. “If ...

As Trump proposes cutting Appalachian Regional Commission, Central Appalachia's coalfields and rural counties remain mired in ...

But the wacky, wadical white wing of the Wepublican Party wants to change all that because they can’t stand seeing people ...

People in Appalachia are talking about "Hillbilly Elegy" ‒ and not all of them kindly. Ohio Sen. JD Vance's bestselling memoir, which thrust him into the spotlight in 2016, gained renewed ...

Many of these people are unlikely to show up in any census, but they, too, are Appalachia. Appalachia is much more economically diverse than Vance acknowledges.

A new album combines Appalachian music with Chinese folk music. Young people can't get enough. From China to Appalachia: An unlikely musical fusion that's got young people hooked Some combinations ...