Peasant, Poet, Provocateur
[imgcontainer right] [img:Don+and+Hedy+West02.jpg] [source]Photo by Jack Powers[/source] Don West with his daughter, folksinger Hedy West, at the 1972 Folklife Festival. [/imgcontainer] By the time Don...
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Rural Voices: More than Singing the Blues
[imgcontainer] [img:132551024_bae45fd4a6_b.jpg] [source]Photo by abbyladybug[/source] Downtown Clarksdale. The city is the seat of Coahoma County, which lies on the Mississppi River in the northwest...
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Rural Voices: ‘Different Than I Expected’
[imgcontainer right] [img:Bio+photo_Sarina+Otaibi02.jpg] Sarina Otaibi [/imgcontainer] A temporary job attracted Sarina Otaibi to move to Granite Falls, a town of about 2,900 in southwest Minnesota....
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Rural Voices: Putting Lockhart on the Map
[imgcontainer] [img:frank_estrada2.jpg] Frank Estrada. [/imgcontainer] Part of a series of interviews with rural leaders who will attend the 2015 National Rural Assembly, September 9-11 in Washington,...
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Rural Voices: ‘A Lot of Allies Out There’
[imgcontainer] [img:20150622-thunder-valley-ground-breaking-0215.JPG] Nick Tilsen is the head of Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation in South Dakota. [/imgcontainer] “Rural Voices” is part...
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Young Leaders: Telling Stories, Solving Problems
On the first day of the National Rural Assembly, the Daily Yonder asked young people from different communities to talk about their homes, their work, and their lives. Here’s what they said. (PHOTO:...
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Reframing Rural: Workshop Teaches How to Talk about Rural
Perfect or damaged beyond repair? Those are the two ways media talk about rural America. Young leaders explore ways to get beyond the same old frames to talk about rural issues in ways that can change...
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Study Links ER with Rural Adolescent Painkiller Misuse
A greater likelihood of receiving medical care in an emergency room could be one of the reasons rural adolescents are more likely than urban youth to misuse painkillers, a new study says. The study...
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Life on the Amazon Frontier: The Fight for the Riozinho do Anfrizio
Brazil, like most of the world, spent the last half century bringing “development” to rural parts of the country, which meant facing a stark question: Do certain peoples’ livelihoods, and even lives,...
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Return to the Rio Pardo
Read the first story in this series here. When we set out on the expedition Seu Edmilson had not been to his rubber tapping camp for nearly twenty years – a place where he lived half the year for 50...
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Analysis: The Mountain State’s Labor Tradition
From 100 Days in Appalachia The West Virginia teachers’ strike ended on March 6 in its second week. What began as a wildcat strike was sparked by a handful of fed-up teachers, supported by school...
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Amazonian Back Country: What if the Only Choice Wasn’t Stay or Go?
Prosperity manifests differently for different people. In the United States, some might say living well requires wealth. In the Brazilian Amazon, some think prosperity means staying in the forest, but...
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Miss. Project Builds on Cultural Strengths to Develop Economy
If you want to build something strong and beautiful, get creative people involved. That advice works whether you are building a house, a piece of art, or even a regional economy, says a Delta...
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Indigenous Brazilians Fight Covid-19, Arson, and the President’s Push for...
BR-163, the Cuiabá-Santarém highway, a strip of asphalt and dirt roughly 25 feet wide and 1,700 miles long, carries at least a third of Brazil’s soy and corn crops to market. Moving between 1,000 and...
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Internet Companies Don’t Want to Serve the Clearfork Valley. So Residents Are...
After five years of looking for someone to provide broadband internet to the rural Clearfork Valley in Tennessee and Kentucky, residents and community advocates decided they would do it themselves....
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