West Virginia
Rednecks, Reds, and the hues of struggle
April 25, 2024When you hear the word “redneck” what do you imagine? Farmworkers? Rural white people? There’s a history to the word.
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Poor People’s Campaign: West Virginia prisoner deaths the ‘tip of the spear’
February 28, 2023Unexplained deaths in the state’s jails are only a tiny part of an enormous injustice in America.
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A report from inside the Manchin Blockade
April 18, 2022Hundreds gathered in a small town in the rustic hills of Appalachia where they decided to stand up to the coal monster, Sen. Joe Manchin, who is poisoning West Virginia.
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Miners press Manchin to choose between them and the coal bosses
January 11, 2022The pressure on him to back Build Back Better, coming from the United Mine Workers of America in West Virginia, may be the one thing that can get the recalcitrant senator to budge.
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Poor People’s Campaign, West Virginians turn up pressure on Manchin
September 21, 2021His own constituents up in arms about his determination to block aid to the poor in his home state and nationwide.
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