The Appalachian Regional Commission awarded more than $7.4 million to "Backroads of Appalachia." The eastern Kentucky nonprofit promotes scenic drives on existing roads.

Meanwhile, the state’s non-Appalachian counterparts grew by 5%. Worries over young people leaving the region and headlines warning of rural “brain drain” have accompanied population loss.

Rural areas, much like Appalachia, are not monoliths. In fact, according to the Center on Rural Innovation, more than 22% of people living in rural America are people of color. Likewise ...

Across the nation, only 14% of the population lives in a rural area. This equates to 46 million of the total 330 million Americans. In Appalachia, that percentage is more than double with 33% of ...

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Without fail, National Geographic photographers always drew attention to the religious life of Appalachian communities ... while 36% of both rural and metro people said they were atheist ...

Without fail, National Geographic photographers always drew attention to the religious life of Appalachian communities — rural preachers ... About 51% of respondents who live in metro counties said ...

GOP states are particularly reliant on a program that President Donald Trump and other Republicans have targeted for deep ...

I’m moving my people away from white supremacy because I am a rural, white, working-class woman from Appalachia, not in spite of it. One of the most important lessons in organizing is that no ...

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here ... the unique intersectional experience of Black Americans living in the rural and Appalachian South, and his book has become a classroom standard since ...