Tens of thousands of Appalachian migrants moved to Southwest Ohio starting in the 1940s. The coalition organized to advocate ...

Customers of Appalachian Power Co., who have been hit repeatedly with higher electricity bills, would be able to switch to ...

The Bridge Project, funded by New York's Monarch Foundation, is expanding its unconditional cash program to Appalachia, ...

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and ...

There has been a modest increase in recent years, but there are still far fewer coal jobs in the region than in 2011, and the Appalachian Regional Commission calculated the poverty rate in the county ...

Many youth who joined the Young Lords were inspired by his passion, leadership and understanding of what it meant to fight ...

photo by AL HACKLE/Staff At the heart of his 2024 State of the City speech, Mayor Jonathan McCollar noted a big statistical decrease in poverty in Statesboro but asserted that eliminating poverty ...

Destin Hall, the youngest state House speaker in 200 years, will have greater influence over the Republican agenda.