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."
Urban Ecology and Animism in the Landscape of the Great Lakes
An interview with Matt Stansberry and Gavin Van Horn.
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: A Conversation
Black families in Chicago are far more likely than their white counterparts to have zero wealth. What are area organizations doing about it?
Tracy K. Smith’s Civic Vision
The U.S. poet laureate on her new edited collection and how literature can mend a fractured civic culture.
Beyond Good and Bad: A Conversation with Connor Coyne
By Kelsey Ronan On September 22nd, Flint native Connor Coyne will launch a novel twenty-two years in the making. The [...]
“There Ain’t No Haints in Detroit!”: An Interview With Author Angela Flournoy
Angela Flournoy’s debut novel The Turner House was published this spring and has met with much acclaim, becoming a May 2015 Indie Next pick and garnering a stellar review in the New York Times.