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Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB ...
For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...
As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...
Wyoming is one of at least 9 counties in West Virginia that have used their opioid settlement funds to pay off at least a portion of their regional jail bill, an analysis of FOIA documents by students ...
On a warm summer day in late May, about 100 people are waiting for their turn to go inside the Neighborhood S.H.O.P., located in the annex of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church on the West Side of ...
On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County, West Virginia. Davis was soon to start his current job pastoring five United Methodist churches ...
In the 1980s, in the United States, coal and aluminum production were each thriving industries. The production of primary aluminum depended, at that time, on plentiful, inexpensive coal – and the rich ...
Too often, however, the militant traditions of socialism in Appalachia have been treated as a quaint anachronism, peculiar to a bygone era before the New Deal. Nevertheless, the oppression and ...
Karen Williams, lifelong resident of Charleston’s West Side, poses for a portrait outside of Phat Daddy’s barbecue restaurant on Friday, April 14, 2023. Williams, a retired educator of 40 years, ...