Mason Adams grew up in western Virginia and has covered Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountain communities since 2001. He writes from Floyd County, Va.
DispatchRural America
Rural Black Lives Matter
After Travon Brown found a cross burning in his yard, he organized a Black Lives Matter march in the rural town of Marion, Va., where hundreds of angry counter-protestors were ready and waiting.
Mason Adams
Feature
$44,000 for Air Ambulances, Hour-Long Rides to an ER—The High Cost of Healthcare in Appalachia
Rural hospitals are closing or downgrading at an alarming rate. That could be fatal.
Mason Adams
Sign up for our free newsletter and get all of the most important In These Times stories about labor, politics, Gaza, culture, the far-right and so much more in your inbox once each week.
You'll also get our investigations, like the recently-published "U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists" and "The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders."
Thanks for supporting independent media!