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FEATURE
Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays
The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side.
Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays
The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side.
Featured Stories
HISTORY
Robert Smith’s Last Ride
The first person in West Virginia to die from the Spanish Flu pandemic was an incarcerated Black man.
VIDEO
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.
DISPATCH
Rust Belt Independents
How one Indiana community rejected Trumpism.
BIG PICTURE
Smoke in the Valley
What the petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River means for communities in the region and beyond.
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More Stories
Crossing Over
From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
The Fate of the Scrappers
The Mahoning Valley Scrappers have been a symbol of the region's comeback narrative. Now, Minor League Baseball may phase them out.
The Enduring Legacy of Decatur’s Carnegie Library
An ode to a community institution.
Development in Black and White
An interview with Jason Hackworth, author of "Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt."
Black Lives and a River Road
Tracing water, memory and change through Black experiences along and near Route 65.
The Legend of Big Ole
How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.
Can Elk Heal Coal Country?
West Virginians hope elk restoration can help post-mining ecology and local economies recover.
Witness to History
Juanita Mitchell, now 107 years old, saw the 1919 Chicago Race Riots firsthand.
Did Art Walks Cause Trumpism?
(Or, let's stop with the economic anxiety.)
At the Lake County Fair
The fair connects communities that often seem worlds apart socially and politically, but are intimately linked by economics and geography.
Trick or Treat
Celebrating the season in one Chicago "Halloween neighborhood."
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From the Archives
Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt
As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.
News
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.
Call for Submissions: Gary Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories about Gary, Indiana, to be published by Belt Publishing.
