The promise to refuse poverty for students created an ultimatum for staff that sparked innovation, rather than panic.

Metallica’s ‘Disposable Heroes’ blared on a bluetooth speaker. The rest of Marshall, North Carolina, was asleep. But ...

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When calamity strikes, as it often has in the Appalachian community of Swannanoa, North Carolina, the “proud, fierce, and ...

This story was originally published by Sentient. In Duplin County, North Carolina, there is a pollutant that hangs in the air, the water and the soil. It ...

Early one late March morning, Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino was taking his partner to her job ...

Family is at the center of Herty’s culinary story. Growing up on the bayous of St. Bernard Parish with a Cajun mom, the ...

For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities.

From isolated mansions to eerie mountains, the backdrop of rural Vermont inspires the bestselling crime novels of author Eric Rickstad.

Nearly 300,000 people have immigrated from abroad to nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties since 2020, driving most of the growth in rural America during ...

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