Essays
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Power and Possibility in Dayton’s Oregon District
An elegy for a wounded place.
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Rebel Girl of West Ridge
From the Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook.
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The Summer We Went to the Moon
That summer, my parents and I were arguing about God.
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The Packard Presence in Columbus
Walking around Columbus, Ohio, the influence of Frank Packard's architecture is everywhere you look.
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Cadillac Hill
"Almost every girl I know has the same story about a car, about a boy. This is mine."
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Traveling While Black
Learning the racial geography of Indiana as a young Black girl in the 1980s.
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Eight Gardens
On family, community, and gardening as social practice.
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The End of a World as I Knew It
On childhood summers at a black enclave in Michigan, and the moment everything changed.
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Scheherazaden: On the Power of Women’s Stories
Stories, recounted and repeated and insisted upon, accumulate.
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Just Downriver from Detroit
"During my visits to to the nursing home, Dad and I have sometimes settled into chairs to time-travel through a photo album."
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