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Interview: Actor Walton Goggins Gets Justified

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.14.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lincoln, Shawn Ryan, The Apostle, Justified, Atlanta, Clark Johnson, Scott Brazil, The Shield, Marshall Fine Interview, Django Unchained, Marshall Fine, Harlan County, Steven Spielberg, Timothy Olyphant, Raylan Givens, Quentin Tarantino, Boyd Crowder, Walton Goggins, Shane Vandrell, Jack Nicholson, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

When he plays Boyd Crowder on FX's wildly entertaining Justified, Walton Goggins is the charming face of evil, the yin to the yang of Timothy Olyphant's Raylan Givens.

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Lila Shapiro

Acquittal In Kentucky Throws Fuel On Hate Crime Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.26.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Matthew Shepard Act, Anthony-Jenkins, Hate Crimes, Anti-Gay Violence, Harlan County, Crime, Kentucky, Hate Crime, David Jason Jenkins, Gay Voices News, Gay Hate Crime, Kevin Pennington, Anti-Gay Hate Crimes, Gay Voices News

Over the past 10 years, as gay rights advocates have pushed the government to take steps to protect gay people from hate crimes, those arguing for and...

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Lila Shapiro

Hatred In Harlan's Hills

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.23.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Matthew Shepard Act, Anthony-Jenkins, Harlan County, Crime, Hate Crime, David Jason Jenkins, Slideexpand, Jordan Palmer, Kentucky Equality Federation, Kevin Pennington, Gay Voices News

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. -- In the middle of an April night last year, a young gay man named Kevin Pennington crawled out of the woods in the remote hills o...

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Lila Shapiro

Kentucky Cousins Face Life In Anti-Gay Attack, Testing Federal Hate Crime Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 04.18.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Anti-Gay Bias, Gay Rights, Anthony Ray Jenkins, Kentucky Hate Crime, Harlan County, Harlan County Hate Crime, David Jason Jenkins, Hate Crime, Department of Justice, Kevin Pennington, Gay Voices News

Two Kentucky cousins face possible life sentences if convicted of assaulting a gay man in an Appalachian park last year, a case which marks the first ...

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Feds Go After Kentucky Mine

AP | Posted 03.08.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, D&C Mining Corp., U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, Safety Laws, Harlan County, Interest, Kentucky Mines, Mining, Federal Court, Mining Industry, Business News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Federal mining officials are suing a southeastern Kentucky mine for more than $1.6 million owed in delinquent fines for violations ...

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We're With Bigelow: 82 Women on Making it in Hollywood (VIDEO)

Megan Billman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, Chyna Layne, Precious, Harlan County, Cyna Layne, Barbara Kopple, Women in Hollywood, Women Directors, Video, Los Angeles News
Megan Billman

This film was born six weeks ago, over dinner, as we discussed Kathryn Bigelow's nomination and wondered why there hadn't been more women nominated in the category of best director.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Outliers and the Hillbilly Sterotype

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Gurney Norman, Civil Rights Movement, Obama Appalachia, Poverty, Blink, Kentucky Cycle, Outliers, Prejudice, Bob Dylan, Malcolm Gladwell, Civil Rights, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Appalachia, Stereotypes, Harlan County, Tipping Point, Bias, Kentucky, Discrimination, Beverly Hillbilllies, Hillbillies, Peter Frampton, Hogan's Heroes, Harlan, Media News
Don McNay

I would like to see Malcolm Gladwell test his theory about Southerners being more prone to violence than Northerners.

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