Harlan County

Possum In Kentucky Artist's Mural Reveals Complicated Connection To Marsupial's Symbolism

Scavenger. Trash animal. Chicken killer. Hero. People here in Appalachia have lots of feelings when it comes oppossums — or "possums" as some people call…

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Former Blackjewel Miners End Railroad Blockade In Kentucky

The nearly two-month blockade of a Kentucky railroad track is coming to an end as unpaid coal miners end their protest in order to take new jobs, start…

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Conclusion to Derek Akal's Struggle to Stay, Part Four

This is the last part of our Struggle to Stay series, and the final chapter of Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay. Derek, 22, is from a coal-camp town called…

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‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken?’ -- Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay, Part Two

This is chapter two of Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay. In the first chapter, we met a young man from Harlan County, Kentucky, who thought a college…

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