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Published December 18, 2020 at 9:19 AM EST Listen • 15:33 On this West Virginia Morning, we look at West Virginia’s overburdened foster care system and how the U.S. Department of Justice has been working with state officials for years to try to improve conditions. Also, we bring you this week’s Mountain Stage Song of the Week from songwriter Sam Beam. There are more than 400,000 children across the U.S. currently in the foster care system. Taking care of all...

Published December 11, 2020 at 10:00 AM EST Listen • 14:44 On this West Virginia Morning, what happens when your neighborhood becomes a place where you can no longer afford to live? We hear from residents in Pittsburgh who tried to fight back against urban renewal, and what happened. Also, Inside Appalachia’s co-host Mason Adams talks with the reporter who followed this story. U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia is discouraging federal communicatio...

Protesters at a Black Lives Matter March in Marion, Virginia in July 2020. What are communities in Appalachia doing to address racism? The death of George Floyd and others at the hands of police sparked hundreds of demonstrations over the summer, and a national reckoning on police reform and systemic racism. Those conversations are happening here in Appalachia, too. Many mountain people organized Black Lives Matter marches in small towns across the region. And they’re taking a hard look at l...