The Knoxville Water and Energy for All Campaign aims to address unaffordable utility bills and disconnections in the city.
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The Knoxville Water and Energy for All Campaign aims to address unaffordable utility bills and disconnections in the city.
Faced with the threat of utility disconnection and even eviction in the pandemic, many North Carolinians are forced to decide between essentials.
Despite a national coal downturn, mining has not slowed much in Raleigh County, West Virginia, where companies have proposed two new mountaintop removal coal mines.
Instead of throwing away broken electronics, furniture, appliances and more, community groups across Appalachia oppose disposal by fixing these items and teaching their neighbors how to do the same.
Shape-note singing is a living tradition of musical and social harmony, and is practiced in Appalachia and across the world.
This brainless, single-celled organism is able to solve surprisingly complex puzzles and is even able to memorize and anticipate changes in its environment.
Writer Terran Sparkle Young describes her experience as a Black American learning about her family’s history and a local overgrown cemetery.
Communities across the region are working to document and preserve historic African-American cemeteries to keep them from becoming lost to history.