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 ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution ...

The state of Kentucky introduced an African American Heritage Trail today, offering visitors nearly 50 primary sites and ...

The trail is comprised of nearly 50 primary sites that detail Black historical figures and monuments in the state's history.

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 ...

When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration ...

In a rare occasion of good news for the nation’s coal miners, a decision this week in a lawsuit brought by one of their own will reverse at least some of the damage done when the Trump ...

Approximately 50,000 American coal miners are now without that safety net of care and prevention despite President Donald Trump‘s executive order and promises to revive the coal industry in the ...

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified ... federal employees who worked on black lung screening. The American Federation of Government Employees Local 3430 — the union ...