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 ...

Quilts - some sewn, some painted - were part of a 9,000-square-foot art installation that stretched across the National Mall on Saturday, its 258 panels stitching together a story of transgender pride ...

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 ...