appalachia
December 8, 2025
Federal and State Failures Push Healthcare Further Out of Reach for Rural North Carolina
Cascading effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, and a state budget deadlock make vital healthcare unaffordable for a growing number of rural North Carolinians.
November 24, 2019
In ‘Stranger with a Camera’ Filmmaker Re-examines Community’s Past
In late September, 1967, Canadian journalist Hugh O’Connor was shot and killed outside of a home in Jeremiah, Kentucky. The latest in a string of reporters who’d trekked into Appalachia to report from the epicenter of crushing labor and poverty, O’Connor was a victim, in part, of growing resentment of the media in the wake Appalachian portrayals and coverage from the War on Poverty.