This is definitely one of the most tragic places in the country. Your idea of poverty is probably different from mine. But out here is on another level. I’m not sure if they know or even care how poor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The region's most economically distressed counties are in the coalfields of Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky's ...

In Appalachia, mental health challenges are a present reality shaped by the conditions of everyday life. At Christian Appalachian Project (CAP), we see mental health needs firsthand in the families ...

Sixty years ago, Life photographer John Dominis traveled to eastern Kentucky, where he captured shocking and raw photographs of deprivation—the target of President Lyndon Johnson’s recently announced ...

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Here & Now’s Scott Tong visited Kingsolver in her home in western Virginia to talk about the power of home, poverty and addiction.

PIKETON — Keith E. Pitts, president and CEO of the Community Action Committee of Pike County (CAC), has been awarded the Marvin J. Huston General’s Award by the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

Unlike the other three, the Appalachian Regional Commission is still kicking. The only question is, for how much longer? Officially, it was born in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war ...

Independent reporting you can trust. May was Mental Health Awareness Month, but in Appalachia, mental health isn’t a monthly conversation. Mental health challenges are a present reality shaped by the ...