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Protesting ICE Immigration Raids in Chicago
Thousands gathered in Chicago's Daley Plaza over the weekend to protest migrant imprisonment and planned ICE raids on undocumented immigrants in major U.S. cities.
Protesting ICE Immigration Raids in Chicago
Thousands gathered in Chicago's Daley Plaza over the weekend to protest migrant imprisonment and planned ICE raids on undocumented immigrants in major U.S. cities.
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COMMENTARY
The End of Youngstown’s Vindicator
The city's daily paper is closing down, leaving a gaping hole in the local journalism landscape.
FIELD NOTES
The Enduring Legacy of the 2010 Kalamazoo River Oil Spill
Nearly a decade after one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history, the landscape has changed.
POETRY
Crossing in Miller (1889)
"a man stands, balancing, // one foot on one line and the other on another, touching the pulse / of two emergent powers"
EXCERPT
The Rippling Effect of Baron Walker
In 2015, a study found Milwaukee's 53206 ZIP code imprisoned sixty-two percent of Black men under the age of thirty-four. Baron Walker was one of them.
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Introduction: “This City is Killing Me”
The introduction to a new book on "community trauma and toxic stress in urban America."
“Out of the Closets and Into the Streets”
Queer Midwestern communities were politically active in the pivotal years leading up to Stonewall.
2014
"Yes, I have been here before / On the threshold of justice’s door / Half a century ago / In Selma, Oxford, / And Birmingham." [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]
Cadillac Hill
"Almost every girl I know has the same story about a car, about a boy. This is mine."
Gambling on Hemp
Illinois began accepting applications to grow industrial hemp at the end of April. But the first legal crop in more than eighty years is accompanied by a lot of uncertainty.
Traveling While Black
Learning the racial geography of Indiana as a young Black girl in the 1980s.
Tying the Green New Deal to Environmental Justice in Chicago
The youth-led national Sunrise Movement made a case to local organizers.
A Complicated Heritage of Coal
In southern Illinois, one community’s complex relationship with the industry on display.
Cleaving
"I unfold my maps and trace my finger / across searching for the most authentic-looking / ruins."
Inside the St. Louis Rent Strike of 1969
“It touched everybody all over the country who lived in public housing.” [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]
Oral Histories of the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire
The events of June 1969 have come to define both Cleveland and the river. Some Clevelanders have a different story.
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From the Archives
Fear and Loathing on Euclid Avenue: Dispatches from the RNC in CLE
“I’m not here because I agree with everybody.”
Calls for Submissions
Call for Submissions: Dayton Anthology
Announcing an anthology of stories from Dayton, Ohio, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: Youngstown Anthology (2nd Edition)
Announcing an anthology of stories from Youngstown, Ohio, to be published by Belt Publishing.
Call for Submissions: INseparable
In search of features, essays, and poems that engage with the relationships between rural, urban, and suburban places in Indiana.
