Aretha Was Detroit
By Aaron Foley Reprinted with permission from Detroit's The Neighborhoods, where Aaron Foley has continued to chronicle the city's response to [...]
When Detroit Pot Shops Ran Rampant: A Photo Essay by Dave Jordano
VIEW SLIDESHOW You’d think Detroit’s cannabis advocates would be thrilled at the recent announcement [...]
Resisters of the Rust Belt: A Photo Essay by Garrett MacLean
VIEW SLIDESHOW When Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States, [...]
Turns Out Kid Rock’s Senate Run Was A Prank. But The Divisions It Exposed Between Detroit And Its Surrounding Suburbs Are No Joke.
By 5:30 p.m. on September 12, Woodward Avenue, Detroit’s main downtown boulevard, had transformed into the latest battleground of America’s seething culture wars.
Detroiters are Talking. Listen to Them.
It is satisfying and terrifying seeing so much of Detroit outside Detroit these days. Detroiters on the small screen, the Comedy Central series about, well, Detroiters, coupled with Detroit, the much-debated Kathryn Bigelow flick meant to inspire conversation about police brutality through a 50-year-old lesson learned during our riots.
Two Letters: Jackie Kennedy, Ray Bradbury, Suburbia, and Me
By Amy Kenyon This is a memory of two letters written during the last years before home computers and social [...]
When Ruby Jones Was Here
Excerpted from The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook, coming in August from Belt Publishing. By Lakisha Dumas When Ruby Jones was here, Detroit was [...]
Our Bungalow on Braile
More than anything, my dad talks about the trees. How branches reached up and intertwined over the street to block out the sun. Turned the street into a tunnel. You couldn’t see the sky. Same thing on every block he and his four younger brothers would have walked. Trees taller than all the Warrendale bungalows.
Preorder Bonus for The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
Preorder The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook from Belt today and you'll not only be the first on your block to get your copy, it will come with a sweet bonus: a hand-drawn map of Detroit by Alex B. Hill.
Introduction to the Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
No matter how many books are done about Detroit, it’s still impossible to capture this city’s ethos into a finite number of pages. But damn if we don’t come close sometimes.
D.L.I.V.E – Rebuilding The Lives Of Gunshot Victims In Detroit
In a small conference room at Detroit Medical Center’s Sinai Grace Hospital, violence intervention specialist Ray Winans asks a roomful of young African Americans if they know anyone who has been killed by gunshots.
Be the First to Get Belt’s ‘Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook’!
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook is ready for pre-order! If you loved A Detroit Anthology and How to Live in Detroit Without Being a [...]