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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-01-11T00:47:13-05:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. Links from January 4 - 10, 2016.

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Refugees In Michigan: The Story Of Loss, Belonging And America

2016-01-08T08:28:12-05:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Detroit, Politics and Urbanism, Population|

Sometimes conflicts and the suffering that they bring force people to leave their homes in search of a place where they can survive. It’s not easy for refugees to leave everything behind: their house, a secure job, a way of life and a family.

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Paying Careful Attention: An Interview With Bonnie Jo Campbell

2016-01-14T09:33:23-05:00By William Rickman|Arts & Culture, Books|

Most of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s characters live where she does, in Comstock Township, a southern Michigan region that the New York Times says she depicts as “part dump, part wilderness and part farmland.”

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Of Bibles and Body Slams: The Story Of Flint Wrestler Leo “Father Time” Napier

2016-02-17T11:43:10-05:00By William Rickman|Arts & Culture, Covers, Features, Flint, Performance|

Leo Napier is walking around each side of a wrestling ring in Dearborn, Michigan, teaching the audience assembled there how to be his fan. They are willing. They are eager.

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The B&O, Crossroads of Time and Space

2016-01-14T09:40:21-05:00By William Rickman|Cities, Youngstown|

When the writer Henry Miller stepped down from the train he’d taken to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1940, he saw two girls, heads wrapped in scarves, picking their way down the bluff of a hillside by the railroad ...

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Weekly Links Roundup

2016-01-14T21:22:00-05:00By William Rickman|Current Issue|

News of the Rust Belt from around the world, brought to you weekly by the staff of Belt Magazine. News from the week of December 28, 2015 - January 3, 2016.

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REASON: An Elegy For Tamir Rice

2020-06-24T10:17:07-04:00By William Rickman|Cities, Cleveland, Commentary|

The Grand Jury of Cuyahoga County accepted County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty’s recommendation and declined to indict Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback for murder...

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Belt is on Break

2016-01-14T21:22:35-05:00By Martha Bayne|Current Issue|

We're going dark for two weeks for the holidays. We will return January 4, 2016 with more news from around the Rust Belt. Until then, stay warm browsing our archives!

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Caring For All Parts: Hadad Farm

2016-01-14T21:21:14-05:00By William Rickman|Cities, Current Issue, Detroit, Essays, Politics and Urbanism, Urban Agriculture and Food|

On the east side of Detroit sits an old two-story house washed sky blue. The paint is chipped and the windows are barred with thick grey metal. It is my grandmother’s house of over fifty years.

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Buildings and Food: Walnut Way is Transforming its Milwaukee Neighborhood Brick by Brick, Crop by Crop, and Porch by Porch

2016-01-14T09:41:11-05:00By William Rickman|Cities, Housing, Milwaukee, Politics and Urbanism, Population, Urban Agriculture and Food|

They sling a mean Reuben at Jake’s Deli on the corner of W. North Avenue and 17th Street on Milwaukee’s north side. That iconic sandwich, arguably the best in town, hasn’t changed much ...

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