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Safe In Buffalo, NY, Syrian Refugees Are Still Looking For Peace
Fatima Darwish El Nashef needed air, so she left her apartment and strolled through the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo. She had been feeling like a zombie, adjusting to a new home while constantly thinking about the hell she had left behind in Syria.
As Ohio Goes: One Year Removed From Election Day 2016, Voters From The Ultimate Bellwether State Reflect On A Divided Nation
By Aaron Gettinger Since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide election victory of 1964, no candidate for U.S. [...]
America’s History Of Racial Violence Is Not Just A Southern Issue. The Midwest Needs To Come To Terms, Too.
On June 1, 1893, two local white women, a Mrs. Dill and a Mrs. William Vest, had reported that they were raped by an African-American man. Bands of white men roamed through the streets and fields, intending to lynch the perpetrator.
Turns Out Kid Rock’s Senate Run Was A Prank. But The Divisions It Exposed Between Detroit And Its Surrounding Suburbs Are No Joke.
By 5:30 p.m. on September 12, Woodward Avenue, Detroit’s main downtown boulevard, had transformed into the latest battleground of America’s seething culture wars.
Eminent Domain, Ruined Farmland, Crony Capitalism: Racine County Braces For Foxconn
Apple Holler is an 80-acre pick-your-own orchard destination just off of Interstate 94 in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, about midpoint on the main highway connecting Milwaukee and Chicago’s northern suburbs.
More cops, More problems: In Cleveland, both mayoral candidates are dangerously misguided on the solution to violent crime
Tomorrow at noon, Clevelanders will settle in for the lone mayoral debate in what has proven to be a contentious election season. There are a number of major issues at stake.
Introduction To Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology
This book is an extension of our friendship; an extension of our ongoing work. To start, we are longtime friends — since third grade. We have known each other for decades. In fact, our first collaborative activist effort was in sixth grade.
Detroiters are Talking. Listen to Them.
It is satisfying and terrifying seeing so much of Detroit outside Detroit these days. Detroiters on the small screen, the Comedy Central series about, well, Detroiters, coupled with Detroit, the much-debated Kathryn Bigelow flick meant to inspire conversation about police brutality through a 50-year-old lesson learned during our riots.
Far Away From Any Witnesses, My Small Southeastern Ohio Town Is Being Poisoned By Fracking Waste
Some days, the air would smell acrid, sharp like bleach, and I would hurry from the car into the house. Other days, the wind seemed normal, unremarkable. I didn’t know why.
Post-Charlottesville, as white supremacist activity spikes in Ohio, local law enforcement say ‘There’s nothing we can do’
In the aftermath of the August 12 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which an Ohio man intentionally drove his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one person and injuring 19 others, white supremacists in their various forms have been making news in the Buckeye state.
Radical Suburbs by Amanda Kolson Hurley, A New Book from Belt Publishing forthcoming in 2019
We all think we know what the suburbs are like: affluent, conservative, orderly, and a [...]
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