Harlan County

Lila Shapiro

Hatred In Harlan's Hills

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.23.2012

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...

Lila Shapiro

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 04.18.2012

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 ...

Feds Go After Kentucky Mine

AP | Posted 03.08.2012

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

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

Megan Billman | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Outliers and the Hillbilly Sterotype

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Don McNay

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