I am not from here. About a quarter of my life was spent in northwest Missouri having grown up in St. Joseph. After that we ...
In her novel "Demon Copperhead," author Barbara Kingsolver tells the story of poverty and addiction in contemporary Appalachia. Host Scott Tong caught up with Kingsolver in western Virginia to talk ...
If you wanted to make a movie about the pain and progress of Kentucky’s Appalachian coalfield in the last 60 years, a key ...
Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) first entered popular culture selling a caricature of Appalachian culture to eager elite consumers on both the political right and left. His 2016 book, ...
When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, the then-senator’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis came back ...
Sometimes you just have to give the devil his due. That’s what I’m about to do for Trump’s new vice- presidential pick, J. D. Vance. In his best-seller memoir “Hillbilly Elegy," Vance pretty much ...
Gayle Manchin is the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, set up to try to improve the economy in a region covering all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states, including ...
POVERTY Misery of VortexBathed in the unforgiving harshness of massed TV lights, Senator Robert F. Kennedy pounded a table to still the chatter of shabby, tieless white folk crowded into the one-room ...
On the 60th anniversary of the War on Poverty, the economy of the region is in transition. Healthcare and remote work have added jobs. In 1964, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson asked the U.S. Congress ...
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