Twilight in Grand Rapids
A photographer’s exploration of the city she calls home, in its quietest hours.
Election Week Through the Lenses of Black Women
Snapshots of the 2020 election from five photographers across the Rust Belt.
How Chef Chanell Hale is Feeding Her Community in a Pandemic
A look inside the Chicago operation where Hale and her team cook and deliver hundreds of meals per week.
Path Dependency (Or, Appalachia is Not Post-Industrial)
How the region's industrial history continues to shape contemporary life.
Portraits of Gary, Indiana
Photographs of everyday life for young people in the city.
Protest and Power
Scenes from a moment of reckoning.
The Restoration of Maxo Vanka’s Working-Class, Immigrant Murals
On the walls of a Pittsburgh-area church, twenty-five scenes of God, war, justice, family.
Top Stories of 2019
Ten stories our readers kept coming back to.
Black Lives and a River Road
Tracing water, memory and change through Black experiences along and near Route 65.
“On Strike for Better Schools”
Photos from the Chicago Teachers Union strike.
Garfield Park: Perspectives
An excerpt from "The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook."
An Appalachian Community in Transition
In the last fifty years, loss of coal industry and frequent flooding have driven people out of Sharpsburg, Ohio. But not everyone is ready to leave.