April and Jeff Hawkins
April Hawkins and her husband, Rev Jeffrey Hawkins Sr, surrounded by the donated cases of water their church [...]
On the wrong side of the digital divide in Cleveland, OH
By Afi Scruggs If it wasn’t for his telephone, David Rosario wouldn’t have a job. Rosario, 29, works part time [...]
Belt Magazine Live: With New America Chicago, a panel discussion about discrimination in the VC world
By Steve Friess Photography by Jesus Montero Earlier this month, Belt Magazine and New America Chicago held a live panel discussion [...]
Joe Magarac: Man of Steel
From Belt Publishing's Folktales and Legends of the Middle West By Edward McClelland, with illustrations by David Wilson Though Pittsburghers [...]
A wind farm on Lake Erie? If only Ohio pols, and some environmental activists, too, would get out of the way.
By Justin Nobel Icebreaker Wind, a promising Lake Erie wind energy project — which would be the first freshwater wind [...]
The State of Michigan has stopped providing free bottled water to Flint residents; Here’s why that’s unconscionable
By Connor Coyne Photo by Brittany Greeson The latest hit job upon the people of Flint by Michigan Gov. Rick [...]
This Is Why I’m Ready to Walk: Letter from a University of Michigan-Flint Lecturer
By Scott Atkinson Photograph by Erin Emory This is why I teach. I’m perhaps halfway through my digital stack of [...]
The mill might make steel, but the people don’t: The path from John Henry to Wilbur Ross
By Michael Broida The trade war has begun: China announced up to $50 billion of tariffs on U.S. products yesterday [...]
As the four-year anniversary of the Flint Water Crisis approaches, Flint residents are still suffering, and the state continues to pull its resources
By Jiquanda Johnson Photo by Brittany Greeson Each week Tia Simpson travels throughout the city of Flint, Michigan, to restock [...]
An essay: Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway neighborhood — It’s a happy bubble of urban bliss … until something happens
By Lee Chilcote Photography by Maddie McGarvey A note from the author: "I wrote this essay to provide my own [...]
Illinois gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives shows that, ahead of the 2018 Midterms, Trumpism is still thriving in the suburbs
By Jonathan Foiles The ad opens on a group of disparate individuals thanking Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner. Each then gets [...]
A Flint resident on the good, the bad, and the complicated in Netflix’s gritty new docu-drama, ‘Flint Town’
By Connor Coyne If you had asked me a few weeks ago what the words “Flint Town” meant to me, [...]