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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?
Featured Stories
HISTORY
Great Dams on the Land
"When my son rides the Switch Back Gravity Rail over coal lines in Jim Thorpe, I hope to God the mountains are His and my boy might believe in his ancestor clans."
ENVIRONMENT
Alternate Ending
"In this version no one has to wear a wig to senior prom/because of chemo. No one’s car is set on fire."
PERSONAL HISTORY
Akron’s Vietnam
How the war touched one Northeast Ohio neighborhood.
CULTURAL STUDIES
Path Dependency (Or, Appalachia is Not Post-Industrial)
How the region's industrial history continues to shape contemporary life.
Path Dependency (Or, Appalachia is Not Post-Industrial)
How the region's industrial history continues to shape contemporary life.
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More Stories
A People’s Agenda for Immigration
Chicago organizers share the immigration policies that they believe President Biden should prioritize.
What Really Happened at the Capitol on January 6?
A Q&A with 100 Days in Appalachia reporter Chris Jones, who was there.
Twilight in Grand Rapids
A photographer’s exploration of the city she calls home, in its quietest hours.
Lancaster is Burning
"The landscape of Fairfield County, Ohio sprouted the seeds of my imagination, helped them take root." [Excerpt]
Amid an Eviction Moratorium, the Housing Crisis Continues in Southeast Michigan
In Washtenaw County, Michigan, mutual aid projects are providing housing and tenant rights support for renters as the end of the eviction moratorium looms.
Belt’s Top Stories of 2020
Eleven pieces our readers kept coming back to.
The Appalachian Mines Claimed by Christmas
In southern Ohio, the defunct White Gravel Mines have been taken over by a religious holiday production.
meditations in the decline of western civilization
"this is how i ground myself. / i follow the writing on the wall."
Wisconsin’s Pandemic Winter
Vaccines will be rolled out over the coming months, but in the meantime, cold weather, isolation, and already-strained public health infrastructure will converge in the state this winter.
Return (For Chicago)
"This city isn’t built on bullets / alone."
New & Improved Names for the Cleveland Baseball Team
How about those hats?
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From the Archives
Preserving Black Artists’ Legacies in Pittsburgh
A photo and interview series exploring how black artists living in a rapidly-changing Pittsburgh see themselves and their work.
Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt
As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.
Belt News
Call for Submissions: A Sioux Falls Anthology
Belt Publishing will be compiling an anthology of essays about Sioux Falls in 2021/22 as part of its City Anthology series.
The Best of Belt Magazine 2019
Announcing a new anthology of regional writing, available exclusively to Belt members.
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