Unpaid coal miners who worked for the bankrupt Blackjewel company have been blocking coal on a Kentucky railroad track for 37 days ... Outside the Highsplint mine in Harlan, County, KY in 1974, ...

Harlan County, Kentucky, may be one of labor’s most hallowed battlegrounds. ... On July 29, about 50 coal miners in Cumberland, Kentucky, banded together to stop a moving train.

Harlan County, where I'm sitting right now, was the site of bloody mine wars back in the 1930s, and eastern Kentucky was the site of a lot of early union activism. Miners have also rallied to ...

HARLAN, Ky. — Eastern Kentucky miners who say they haven’t been paid by bankrupt coal operator Blackjewel LLC for three weeks continued to protest Wednesday in hopes of raising awareness of ...

A Kentucky coal miner died Thursday as a result in injuries he suffered at a Harlan County underground mine on May 22. Felix “Matt” North, of Bell County, was critically injured when the mine ...

Blackjewel, the coal company that declared bankruptcy and left miners unpaid, sparking a protest in Harlan County, has agreed to pay $5.1 million to cover back wages of its Kentucky, Virginia and ...

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WJHL) – Blackjewel miners blocked a train from leaving a coal mine in Harlan County according to CBS affiliate WYMT. The station reports that miners prevented a coal trail ...

Former Harlan County coal miner Mark Gray, 58, recalled to the New York Times the moment a meeting was called at work: ... Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Harlan County switches to solar power.

For nearly a century, Harlan County, Ky., has occupied an outsized place in the American consciousness. Coal is the lifeblood of Harlan, where miners’ fierce battles against deadly working ...

Intro by Panagioti Tsolkas, interview conducted with Lill, an anarchist organizer born and raised in southeast Kentucky. When I heard news of the coal miners’ railroad blockade in Harlan County, I ...

Harlan County, KY — HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) - A coal miner has died after an accident in a Harlan County mine. The incident happened at 2:15 a.m. Tuesday at a mine owned by Revelation Energy ...

HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. — Coal miners protesting their lack of pay have reached an agreement with CSX to retrieve their engine without the cars carrying the coal. Officials from the train company ...