Appalachian Ghost Tours travel around the area, inviting the public to join them in their hunt for the paranormal.

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 ...

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 ...

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

There’s nothing wrong with reading “Hillbilly Elegy,” but we need to keep in focus that it is the story of Vance’s perspective of Appalachian people, not the story of the people themselves.

Yet another disaster in Appalachia, and yet another lack of enough interest from the cultural elites. Where are the national media regarding Hurricane Helene?

Six Black Appalachian artists could receive $5,000 fellowships to fund their storytelling projects highlighting the Black ...

When JD Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” took off in 2016, people started talking to Neema Avashia about it. She grew up in Appalachia. Southern West Virginia, to be more specific, but moved ...

A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America.

The 2025 edition of Healing Appalachia will feature performances by Tyler Childers, Chris Stapleton, Remi Wolf, and more.

Any church is just a building. It’s the people and, for me, the memories that make it special. I grew up in a tiny country ...

On a clear, sunny day in May, just a few weeks into the Smoky Mountain rafting season, Heather Ellis took a dozen people ...