The Appalachian Ohio Manufacturers’ Coalition launched the Made in Appalachia program last month, which provides ...

Editor’s Note: For more on Appalachia, tune in to CNN this Sunday as W. Kamau Bell meets the region’s largely unknown Black population. “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell” airs Sundays at 10 ...

For four decades Ned Beatty has been the unofficial spokesmodel of Appalachian tourism. Even if Beatty, scrambling around in the woods wearing his tighty-whities, isn’t anchored in your somatic memory ...

Appalachia is not a corner of the United States that cameras come to fresh. Artist-visitors have been making visual shorthand of the rural region for decades, and they have tended to seek the place’s ...

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 ...

A year ago, Venus Octavian, then 17, was homeless and spending nights next to a dumpster behind a Taco Bell in eastern Kentucky. Octavian, who prefers they/them pronouns, has spent the better part of ...

German folk art in an Appalachian cemetery. This cemetery in Fort Chiswell, Virginia preserves German art in early America.

Boomers who once flocked to Florida are increasingly ditching the state for southern Appalachia. A recent Wall Street Journal report highlighted the so-called "halfbacks" who have settled in the ...

Dr. Enkeshi El-Amin, a researcher, lecturer, and cultural worker at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and William Isom, director of the Black in Appalachia project at East Tennessee PBS, were ...

Virginia Tech researchers say there’s no single correct way to pronounce “Appalachia” — here’s what the data shows ...

Hillbilly Elegy perpetuates a stereotyped representation of Appalachia, one in which people like me don’t exist Back in 2016, I was an Appalachian expat living in Boston, feeling homesick and ...