The April 10 call focused on federal cuts and policy changes negatively impacting Appalachian coal miners specifically. “While everyone agrees that the federal government could use some ...

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 ...

A coal miner’s daughter turned filmmaker profiles ... like the sharing of oral history by locals in several Appalachian states. Sheldon also locates the beauty, potentiality and sorrow of ...

This week, in the heart of Appalachian coal country, miners pleaded with regulators to crack down. NPR's Robert Benincasa reports. ROBERT BENINCASA, BYLINE: Former coal miner Terry Lilly sat down ...

After 100 days, Trump's vow to boost coal belies cuts to miner health programs ... Robinson joined a handful of other retired Central Appalachian miners to sit down with ABC News' Jay O'Brien ...

I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan County. From its summit ... people from the Appalachian region ...

Loretta Lynn, the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” whose gutsy lyrics ... one of eight Webb children raised in Butcher Hollow in the Appalachian mining town of Van Lear, Kentucky.

I was born in 1946 and raised in a Black coal mining family at the foot of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak, in Harlan County. From its summit, during my frequent ... stereotype of people from ...