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  • Conclusion to Derek Akal's Struggle to Stay, Part Four

    This is the last part of our Struggle to Stay series, and the final chapter of Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay. Derek, 22, is from a coal-camp town called…

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  • The Struggle to Stay Returns to California

    On this West Virginia Morning, we hear the next chapter in The Struggle to Stay. Lately, we’ve been following 21-year-old Derek Akal, a native of eastern…

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  • ‘Hollywood Dreams’- Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay, Part Three

    This is chapter four of Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay. In the first chapter, we met a young man from Harlan County, Kentucky, who thought a college…

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  • ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken?’ -- Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay, Part Two

    This is chapter two of Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay. In the first chapter, we met a young man from Harlan County, Kentucky, who thought a college…

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  • You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive - Derek Akal’s Struggle to Stay, Part One

    Derek Akal, 22, grew up in the famed coalfields of Harlan County, Kentucky. He’s a bit over six feet tall, he’s black, and he has an athlete’s build. Neat…

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  • The Struggle to Stay: Going Back to Work Underground

    When we left off last time in our Struggle to Stay series, 38-year-old Dave Hathaway, a former coal miner who’d been unemployed for 12 months, was offered…

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