Appalachia, the American South and Urban Condescension
“The smudge of the country. . .” It happened again last week. Another journalist took a swipe at my beloved Appalachia. Yet it’s difficult to stand tall against national media outlets like the New...
View ArticleLooking at Appalachia: Fifty years after the War on Poverty
LBJ with the Fletcher family of Inez, KY. During his State of the Union address in January 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans to address the nation’s poverty, which then hovered at a...
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