Tag: Community

Our Top Staff-Picked Stories of 2021

As 2021 comes to a close, our staff has been reflecting on which stories impacted them this past year. From Chris Jones’ firsthand experience at the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to the longterm impacts of COVID-19 told from the perspective of a 6th grader in Alabama, this […]

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Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Photo: David Smith/100 Days in Appalachia

Journalism About Addiction Often Perpetuates Stigma. So, We’re Going to Fix It.

Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. Over the past 20 years, every corner of our country has been experiencing an opioid epidemic. Tens of thousands of our neighbors, family members and friends have been taken from us. […]

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Connie Dray of West Virginia holds a photo Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, of her cousin Mary Lou Hague, who died in the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as she stands near One World Trade Center while ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary were underway nearby. This was Dray's first time at the ceremonies, saying it was on her list of important things to accomplish, as she also close with Hague's family. Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP Photo

Appalachia Remembers: 20 Years Since 9/11

On September 11, 2001, I was in the sixth grade at Washington Irving Middle School in Clarksburg, West Virginia.  We were sitting in homeroom taking the lunch count when my math teacher walked over from next door and told us to turn on the television in a panic. She left […]

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