Tennessee, never under Reconstructive military occupation, first began leasing prisoners in 1866 during Governor William G.

In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

More than a century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as ...

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been suspended. 4 incredibly wrong things Trump said about coal as he touted its ...

Wellmore Energy Co., a metallurgical coal mining company, plans to lay off 72 workers in Buchanan County, according to notices sent to the state in compliance with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining ...