Some towns in the area were off-limits to African Americans or had sundown laws in place, which meant that they couldn't visit such towns after dark. In December 1919, two black coal miners were ...

One African-American woman remembered the place as a "kind of heaven." That is not a phrase one ordinarily associates with a coal-mining company town. But Buxton, Iowa, was built by the ...

The special 400 HOUR program will look at the history of African Americans who worked the coal mines and will feature former coal miners diagnosed with coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly ...

This occupational health image shows the lungs of a coal worker with Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly known as “black lung disease,” a job-related disease caused by continued ...

"For too long, coal has been a dirty word that most are afraid to speak about," said Jeff Crowe, who Trump identified as a West Virginia miner. Crowe is the superintendent of American Consolidated ...

Morgantown, West Virginia — In West Virginia's coal ... miners," Tennant said. The budget for NIOSH was about $363 million in 2023, the same year that job injuries and illnesses cost Americans ...