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Cleveland and Chicago: Cities of Segregation
An excerpt from "Black in the Middle."
Life After the Derecho
In eastern Iowa, we’re a long way from recovery.
What It’s Like to Be a Farmworker During COVID-19
On picking peaches in a pandemic.
Switch and the Pride of Youngstown
An excerpt from "The Youngstown Anthology," Second Edition.
The Fall of the Grand Dragon
D.C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the KKK, was once the most powerful man in Indiana. His racism was popular. Then he killed a white woman.
A Night at the Drive-In During a Pandemic Summer
"It feels so foreign now, this kind of shared experience in real time."
Restaurant Workers Struggle to Access Unemployment Aid
“This wasn’t the way I thought this year was going to go.”
In Michigan, Long Mail Delays are Hurting Vulnerable People
Policy changes at the USPS, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, have serious consequences for health, business, and politics.
These Trespasses
"All over McKean County, we claimed the unwanted spaces that adults had left behind."
#NoCopAcademy and the Movement to Defund the Police
How youth organizers in Chicago laid the groundwork for contemporary calls to defund the police.
Path Dependency (Or, Appalachia is Not Post-Industrial)
How the region's industrial history continues to shape contemporary life.
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