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Somali Poetry Takes Minneapolis
In Minnesota, Somali youth poets are changing the game.
Richard Hatcher’s Gary
Remembering the life and leadership of one of the first Black mayors of a major American city. [Excerpted from "The Gary Anthology."]
DuPont’s Lasting Legacy in Parkersburg
The West Virginia community is left to grapple with the consequences of C8 contamination.
Possible Landscapes
The future of the Calumet/south Chicago region will have to contend with its infrastructure and layered history.
Top Stories of 2019
Ten stories our readers kept coming back to.
Home Again at the Southside Reunion
In Flint, Michigan, a gathering of the descendants of the men and women who joined the ‘Great Migration.’
Jim Jordan’s Gerrymandered District
In the Ohio 4th, as in gerrymandered districts all over the country, democracy is at stake.
Con Amor Por Southwest Detroit
Volver, Volver//These spaces still hold your treasures,these pieces y cosas/that I can no longer hold in my hand
Robert Smith’s Last Ride
The first person in West Virginia to die from the Spanish flu pandemic was an incarcerated Black man.
Wheeling Island’s Keeper of the Bees
On the most populated Ohio River island, this beekeeper found a way to better himself and his community.
Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays
The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side.
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