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Linda Blackford: The descendants of Pine Mountain Settlement School founder William Creech want a say over land that used to be theirs. But they were not the first owners of Pine Mountain.

Paul Prather: This situation at the Pine Mountain Settlement School shows yet again the extent to which opposing factions now demonize each other.

In the early 20th century, sculptor William Edmondson was recognized as one of the most important Black American artists of his time. Since then, in-depth attention to his artwork and

Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”

More than 3,500 donors made more than 4,400 donations through the kygives.org website.

Mayoral candidates say they want to use the arts to address civic problems. Some even see it as an important part of anti-violence work.

In the five years leading up to the publication of Grinnell College’s land acknowledgment in 2021, zero students who self-identified as American Indian or Native Alaskan enrolled at the College, according to the Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data Set (IPEDS). As Stephanie BadSoldier Snow `03 heard the statement read for the first time at the College’s...

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A prodigy whose playing had drawn raves since he was a teenager, he helped bring the Hammond B3 back into the jazz lineup.

After devastating waters wrecked a novelist’s Eastern Kentucky homeland last week, he worked alongside the helpers—those who refuse to let the voices of Appalachia go under