The two met at the ACLU’s Appalachian Queer Youth Summit ... plus symbols like pitchforks and a coal-miner’s hat, to show that LGBTQ+ people exist in rural spaces. “All of us worked together ...

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal dust ...

If all of this sounds familiar, it’s because the president’s 2016 run made a star of the Appalachian ... coal provided a middle-class living to generations of families. “The coal miner ...