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FEATURE
Somali Poetry Takes Minneapolis
In Minnesota, Somali youth poets are changing the game.
Somali Poetry Takes Minneapolis
In Minnesota, Somali youth poets are changing the game.
Featured Stories
COMMENTARY
How Did Alleged Ukrainian Money Launderers Buy Up Downtown Cleveland?
And what does it mean for the city moving forward?
PERSONAL HISTORY
Richard Hatcher’s Gary
Remembering the life and leadership of one of the first Black mayors of a major American city. [Excerpted from "The Gary Anthology."]
POETRY
Return to Boomtowns
"This is your Gary, where hands grab at homecoming:/brown soldiers, sizzling streets, airwaves thick from a Motor City."
ENVIRONMENT
DuPont’s Lasting Legacy in Parkersburg
The West Virginia community is left to grapple with the consequences of C8 contamination.
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Possible Landscapes
The future of the Calumet/south Chicago region will have to contend with its infrastructure and layered history.
Top Stories of 2019
Ten stories our readers kept coming back to.
Home Again at the Southside Reunion
In Flint, Michigan, a gathering of the descendants of the men and women who joined the ‘Great Migration.’
Jim Jordan’s Gerrymandered District
In the Ohio 4th, as in gerrymandered districts all over the country, democracy is at stake.
Con Amor Por Southwest Detroit
Volver, Volver//These spaces still hold your treasures,these pieces y cosas/that I can no longer hold in my hand
Robert Smith’s Last Ride
The first person in West Virginia to die from the Spanish Flu pandemic was an incarcerated Black man.
Wheeling Island’s Keeper of the Bees
On the most populated Ohio River island, this beekeeper found a way to better himself and his community.
Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays
The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side.
Crossing Over
From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
Smoke in the Valley
What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for communities in the region and beyond.
Rust Belt Independents
How one Indiana community rejected Trumpism.
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From the Archives
Disappearing Act
Prison gerrymandering is distorting democracy in states across the Midwest and nationwide, leaving incarcerated people with inequitable representation—or none at all.
News
Call for Submissions: A Sioux Falls Anthology
Belt Publishing will be compiling an anthology of essays about Sioux Falls in 2021/22 as part of its City Anthology series.
The Best of Belt Magazine 2019
Announcing a new anthology of regional writing, available exclusively to Belt members.
Call for Submissions: Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook
Announcing the Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook, to be published by Belt Publishing.
