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Jesse Jackson campaigns for the 1988 Democratic nomination for president (Jean-Louis Atlan/Sygma via Getty Images)

How Jackson made room for white workers

Jason Kyle Howard
Volunteers hand out signs opposing a data center complex in Tucker County, West Virginia, following a public meeting on June 30, 2025. (ULYSSE BELLIER/AFP via Getty Images)

West Virginia's new strip mines

Sean Carlton
Opioid epidemic health danger and medical crisis with a prescription painkiller addiction concept as a group of pills devastating a patient (Getty Images)

Surviving Appalachia’s opioid crisis

Mandi Fugate Sheffel
Flanked by industry workers, President Donald Trump speaks at a White House signing ceremony for executive orders to revive clean coal technology. (ANDREW THOMAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Appalachia clings to Trump

Jim Branscome
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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Donald Trump and the "pride paradox"

Chauncey DeVega
Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks during a campaign rally with Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Georgia State University Convocation Center on August 03, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

What's JD Vance's Mountain Dew hang-up?

Ashlie D. Stevens
Basket of fresh organic vegetables (Getty Images/Tatiana Krakowiak)

The truth about Appalachian cooking

Rebecca Deurlein
Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) in "The Mandalorian" (Disney+/Lucasfilm Ltd.)

Is Mandalore actually Appalachia?

Alison Stine
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JD Vance | Green Bank, West Virginia (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Vance "leaves out" Appalachian women

Alison Stine
Dolly Parton (Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Celebrate Dolly's triumph with apple pie

Michael La Corte
Apple Stacked Cake (Getty Images/Danielle Leonard)

A stack cake rich in flavor and folklore

Ashlie D. Stevens
Loretta Lynn performing during the 2011 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 11, 2011 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Erika Goldring/WireImage/Getty Images)

Loretta Lynn helped me love home

Alison Stine
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Beagle in forest (Johner Images / Getty Images)

Silas House on climate dystopia and dogs

Alison Stine
Pregnant woman sits on a big doctor's hand (Getty Images/Ponomariova_Maria)

Don’t abandon your red state

Alison Stine
Farm in West Virginia (Richard T. Nowitz/Getty Images)

To live in "Another Appalachia"

Alison Stine
Joe Burrow #9 of the Cincinnati Bengals throws during practice in preparation for Super Bowl LVI at UCLA's Drake Stadium (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Burrow's greatness comes from Appalachia

Alison Stine
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Black feminist bell hooks during an interview for her book in 1999 (Margaret Thomas/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Activist bell hooks has died at 69

Alison Stine
Poet Nikki Giovanni who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee (Mireya Acierto/WireImage)

Black poets give a voice to Affrilachia

Amy M. Alvarez, Jameka Hartley - The Conversation
HILLBILLY ELEGY: (L to R) Glenn Close ("Mamaw”), Amy Adams (“Bev”) (Lacey Terrell/NETFLIX)

The real stories of "Hillbilly Elegy"

Chauncey DeVega
Glenn Close as Mamaw in "Hillbilly Elegy" (Lacey Terrell/Netflix)

Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy"

Alison Stine
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A tree sprouting in a forest (Getty Images)

Wild ginseng is at a crossroads

Emily Cataneo - Undark
Smoky Mountains in Tennessee (Getty/SeanPavonePhoto)

An "extinction hotspot" in Appalachia

John R. Platt - The Revelator
Bobi's Granny's house (Bobi Conn)

Reclaiming a family home from addiction

Bobi Conn
"The Third Rainbow Girl" by Emma Eisenberg

The Rainbow Murders, revisited

Erin Keane
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