FIELD NOTES
White Shirt Day and “The Birth of a Union”
The legacy of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike—for Flint and beyond.
White Shirt Day and “The Birth of a Union”
The legacy of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike—for Flint and beyond.
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POLITICS
Akron’s Vietnam
How the war touched one Northeast Ohio neighborhood.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Fighting Fentanyl
The synthetic opioid adds an additional challenge to treating drug use and overdoses in Michigan.
POETRY
Power and Peril at the Great Lakes
Lessons from one 1971 near-disaster for the future of nuclear power in the region.
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The Real Walleye Capital of the World
A writer goes in search of a community worthy of the title—and her own Midwestern identity.
A Skillet of Suns and Oceans
"and there I was,/wearing a two-hundred-dollar wool coat/in my own kitchen.../homesick and hungry"
Disappearing Act
Prison gerrymandering is distorting democracy in states across the Midwest and nationwide, leaving incarcerated people with inequitable representation—or none at all.
Cleveland’s Environmental Justice Hotspots
New maps reveal patterns of inequality in Cuyahoga County.
In the Shadow of Lincoln Yards
A $5 billion development threatens one of Chicago's most beloved venues—and much more.
Appalachian Sunday
"There’s no name/for the things/we do to survive."
Northwest Indiana’s Slow Burn
Water, oil, and industrial volcanoes in Indiana's Calumet region, along the shore of Lake Michigan.
“Tired of Going to Funerals”: The 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary
The landmark assembly led to the formation of a National Black Agenda.
West Virginia’s ‘Recovery Boys’
A photo essay from Jacob’s Ladder, a residential addiction recovery program in the rural community of Aurora, West Virginia.
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Beyond ‘White Flight’
What the history of one Cleveland neighborhood can teach us about race and housing inequality.
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