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Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
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Akron’s Vietnam
How the war touched one Northeast Ohio neighborhood.
COMMENTARY
Rebel Girl of West Ridge
From the Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook.
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“Out of the Closets and Into the Streets”
Queer Midwestern communities were politically active in the pivotal years leading up to Stonewall.
2014
"Yes, I have been here before / On the threshold of justice’s door / Half a century ago / In Selma, Oxford, / And Birmingham." [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]
Cadillac Hill
"Almost every girl I know has the same story about a car, about a boy. This is mine."
Gambling on Hemp
Illinois began accepting applications to grow industrial hemp at the end of April. But the first legal crop in more than eighty years is accompanied by a lot of uncertainty.
Traveling While Black
Learning the racial geography of Indiana as a young Black girl in the 1980s.
Tying the Green New Deal to Environmental Justice in Chicago
The youth-led national Sunrise Movement made a case to local organizers.
A Complicated Heritage of Coal
In southern Illinois, one community’s complex relationship with the industry on display.
Cleaving
"I unfold my maps and trace my finger / across searching for the most authentic-looking / ruins."
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"]
Oral Histories of the 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire
The events of June 1969 have come to define both Cleveland and the river. Some Clevelanders have a different story.
Eight Gardens
On family, community, and gardening as social practice.
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From the Archives
Fear and Loathing on Euclid Avenue: Dispatches from the RNC in CLE
“I’m not here because I agree with everybody.”
Calls for Submissions
Call for Submissions: LGBTQ Anthology
Announcing an anthology of LGBTQ stories from the Midwest and Appalachia, to be published in Fall 2020 by Belt Publishing.
