If the people here weren't 98.5 percent white, we'd call it a reservation. Driving through these hills, you aren't in the Appalachia of Elmore Leonard's Justified or squatting with Lyndon Johnson ...

People in the region say they're tired of always being depicted as poor, so when NPR's Pam Fessler went to Appalachia to report on how the War on Poverty is going, she was warned that people would ...

But the wacky, wadical white wing of the Wepublican Party wants to change all that because they can’t stand seeing people ...

Appalachia has become a familiar shorthand for rural, white Americans, typically in poverty. But in reality, the region has a rich ethnic history and a rapidly diversifying future.

Kennedy made rural poverty a focus of his presidential campaign. This year’s candidates could do the same—this time, in the Black Belt region.

The Appalachian Regional Commission defined the boundaries for Appalachia in 1965 with the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, a part of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty.

Appalachia is home to Harry M. Caudill, a Kentucky lawyer and former slide legislator whose sorrow for the fate of the area and passion for its renewal were movingly told in NIGHT COMES TO THE ...

SJ: Before 2016, people associated Appalachia with two things: coal and poverty. After 2016, we now have a third, which is Trump, and perhaps a fourth, the opioid epidemic.

The term describes poverty as well as poor health outcomes, such as lowered life expectancy, of its residents. The regions are primarily in South Texas, Appalachia and the Cotton Belt of the ...

Capturing Appalachia’s “Mountain People ... a 2002 documentary film about Adams’ work—say he exploits a region already saddled with stereotypes involving poverty and violence.

He didn’t, of course, because Wilson was “writing about black people in the inner cities,” not whites in Appalachia or the Rust Belt. Moreover, Wilson’s book had left him dissatisfied.