US President Donald Trump complimented the president of Liberia Wednesday on his English-speaking skills -- despite English being the official language of the West African nation.

Six 21st century learning centers run by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Appalachia will close permanently if the Trump ...

The Harboring & Other Stories,” a new short story collection by Kathleen Jacobs, will be released July 11 by Jan-Carol Publishing. It can be ordered at Amazon or anywhere books are sold. When my ...

Seeing "Romeo and Juliet" in Appalachian garb allows viewers, if they choose, to step back occasionally from the tragic romance and scrutinize a patriarchal society with a violent honor code. By ...

Scott Denham is a language instructor in North Carolina whose land is affected by Enbridge’s Bristol-Glade Spring section of the System Alignment Program.

Justice & Health Preserving Alabama’s Flagg Mountain, the Southernmost Appalachian Peak One of the state’s few remaining old-growth longleaf pine forests, Flagg Mountain connects to the famous ...

The Appalachian region of the southeastern United States is rich in musical history, and Dolly Parton and her family are no exception to that tradition.

I'm a native Virginian, and I can usually tell if someone is from Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina, or Kentucky in the first few minutes of speaking to them. Regional Appalachian dialects ...

Another group among Western Virginia’s early settlers were African Americans. Most of their Southern dialect influenced much of the language heard in West Virginia today. Both African American and ...

Appalachia However, the Appalachian Mountains are the area that gets really interesting. The area of Appalachia encompasses all of West Virginia and parts of a dozen other states, including ...

Appalachia In the eastern U.S., the Appalachian Mountains run from as far north as Canada to as far south as Alabama. But Appalachia itself is a cultural region encompassing all of West Virginia ...