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

List of entries -- List of primary documents -- Introduction -- Entries : A-Z -- Epilogue : great society at 50 -- Primary documents Entries : Affirmative action ; African American Civil Rights ...

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 ...

Appalachia—a region that stretches from Mississippi to New York—has historically been recognized as a socially and economically disadvantaged part of the United States, and growing evidence suggests ...

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 ...

The Appalachian region, encompassing a 206,000 square-mile span from southern New York to northern Mississippi, continues to suffer the highest rate of mortality in the nation from so-called "diseases ...

Comparative maps show a distinct wide swath of progress, but much remains to be done. The 2006 version of the economic status map for Appalachia shows 77 counties remain “distressed,” while 81 others ...

J.D. Vance’s book “Hillbilly Elegy,” published last year, has been assigned to students and book clubs across the country. Pundits continue to cite it as though the author speaks for all of us who ...

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 ...