Rural America
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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
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From Tractors to Phones, Companies Don’t Want You to Repair Stuff. Appalachians Are Fighting Back
Carolina Norman
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Between Dwindling Revenue and Rising Virus Cases, Rural Hospitals Face a Reckoning
April Simpson
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Bayer Engineered a New Corn Seed That’s Resistant to Five Herbicides. But How Long Will It Work?
Johnathan Hettinger
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‘We Get There First or White Supremacists Do’: How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives
Jordan Green
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Black People Own Less of the U.S. than 100 Years Ago. A ‘Black Commons’ Could Help Reverse the Trend
Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone
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Coronavirus Has Shown that Our Food System Is Broken. Now Is the Time to Make It More Resilient
Emma Burnett and Luke Owen
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Global Agribusiness is Devouring the World’s Last Forests. We Need Local Food Systems, Now.
Gaurav Madan
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Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent
Stephanie Woodard
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Deadly Drift: The Herbicide Dicamba is Damaging Trees Across the Midwest and South
Johnathan Hettinger
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‘An Abrupt Wake-Up Call’: Alaska Peers into a Future Without Oil
Yereth Rosen
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We Don’t Farm Because It’s Trendy: For Black Folks, Growing Food Has Long Been a Form of Resistance
Ashley Gripper
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For Decades the U.S. Punished Indigenous Healers. Now the Indian Health Service Wants to Hire Them
Sydney Akridge
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Blaming Ourselves for Crowded Parks Misses the Point: There Aren’t Enough Parks
Stephen Lezak
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Sioux Tribes Are Protecting Their People from Pandemic. The Governor Is Trying to Stop Them
Stephanie Woodard
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Meat Factory Work is Dangerous in Normal Times. The Same Conditions Spread Covid-19
Michael Haedicke
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EPA Gives Agribusiness Giant Syngenta a Pass on Pesticide Monitoring Due to Covid-19 Concerns
Johnathan Hettinger
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A Mask Shortage Could Leave Farmers and Farm Workers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides
Melanie Bateman