IN THE PRESS

 
 

  • The New York Times

    There is something special happening in rural America. Read More

  • The Wall Street Journal

    Conversations about the black vote, rural poverty and the plight of the Black Belt Region have become trending topics around the nation.
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  • RWJ Foundation

    My development into a Black Belt scholar was shaped by the rich cultural displays of food, music and art experienced as a child. By observing the close relationships and extended family care systems
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  • Wisconsin Examiner

    I’m excited about what can come out of this. When we get on the other side, I believe we’re embarking on some substantive changes we really need to make.
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  • The Nation

    The idea for a corresponding regional development program in the Black Belt isn’t a new one.
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  • Maryland Matters

    Those who study or live in rural America know that residents’ lives are intertwined across races. Families may have lived among each other for generations.
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  • Pew Trusts

    About 21% of rural America is nonwhite, according to the Pew Research Center. In some rural counties, people of color are the majority...
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  • Virginia Public Radio

    The Black Belt region extends through seven states from Virginia to Mississippi and includes the largest concentration of historically black communities in the rural South.
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  • 13 WMAZ

    The two cousins say they remember growing up on the farm and helping their dads and uncles with the plows and mules used to tend the land.
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  • Culpeper Star-Exponent

    Congress authorized $33 million to the commission. The trouble is, since 2008, Congress has never appropriated the money, which should have gone to a huge part of Virginia counties slated to be eligible for grants.
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  • The Free Lance-Star

    Veronica Womack, executive director of the Rural Studies Institute at Georgia College and State University, worked with Wise on the original study that led to the Southeast Crescent Rural Commission
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  • BuzzFlash

    There’s a few of us that still deny what we all saw on the television, but for most people, that visual was just too much,” said Veronica Womack, executive director of Georgia College and State University’s Rural Studies Institute in Milledgeville.
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  • Ohio Country Journal

    Typically, one of the biggest challenges facing aspiring young farmers is the inability to “navigate the system” of USDA programs and lending institutions.
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  • Georgia College Radio

    For 20 years, Dr. Veronica Womack has researched rural America focusing on the under-developed South. She is the author of the book “Abandonment in Dixie: Underdevelopment in the Black Belt.” And she’s now standing up Georgia College’s Rural Studies Institute as its first Executive Director.
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