Arts & Culture
Traveling While Black
Learning the racial geography of Indiana as a young Black girl in the 1980s.
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"]
Eight Gardens
On family, community, and gardening as social practice.
The End of a World as I Knew It
On childhood summers at a black enclave in Michigan, and the moment everything changed.
Scheherazaden: On the Power of Women’s Stories
Stories, recounted and repeated and insisted upon, accumulate.
Minneapolis by Segway
"There was always a sense of something missing, a story still jumbled and incomplete..." From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
Detroit’s Eastern Market
Scenes from the city’s historic food and culture hub.
A Palace for the People
The fight to make Chicago's South Shore Cultural Center a space for community arts.
On Chances
"I heard we got the city doing front flips // where every father/mayor/rapper jump ship"
A Skillet of Suns and Oceans
"and there I was,/wearing a two-hundred-dollar wool coat/in my own kitchen.../homesick and hungry"
Midwest Arts and Culture

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