His happiest times came when he stayed with his maternal grandparents. “Home” was with his grandparents (“Mamaw” – pronounced ...

Green lights flickered on the wireless router in Barbara Williams’ kitchen. Just one bar lit up — a weak signal connecting her to the world beyond her home in the Alabama Black Belt. Next to the ...

The rust-belt suffers from decades of neglect ... These MAGA supporters are looking for a way out of their poverty. They look up at their ‘Appalachian’ social barriers, resist the moralistic ...

Imagine a person who is generous in his support of charities and great causes but neglects his family, to the point that his children live in poverty ... in the Rust Belt and Appalachia central ...

The Rust Belt alone lost approximately 1.6 million manufacturing jobs, a decline of 35% from 2000 to 2010. The Appalachian ...

The conservative from Ohio shot to fame writing about his hard upbringing and is now next in line to the US presidency.

Vance grew up in poverty ... Middletown is located in rust-belt Ohio, but Vance identified closely with his extended family’s roots to the south in Appalachia, the vast mountainous inland ...

Athens native, Betsy Franjola, created the Hocking Hills Garment Center by repurposing an old church into a factory in Buchtel, Ohio. Franjola hopes to create meaningful jobs in the community ...

Old Dominion Monarchs (14-19, 10-10 Sun Belt) vs. Appalachian State Mountaineers (17-13, 10-8 Sun Belt) Pensacola, Florida; Friday, 8:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Appalachian State plays Old Dominion ...