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Pro Basketball’s Rust Belt Roots

The Goodyear Wingfoots, General Electrics, and the heyday of industrial basketball.

Vince Guerrieri2022-02-25T11:07:32-05:00February 16, 2022|
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Worker-Owned Cooperatives and the Future of Rust Belt Labor

Amid declining union power and attacks on organized labor, some Rust Belt workers are turning to worker-owned cooperatives.

Raechel Anne Jolie2021-05-19T10:40:45-04:00May 7, 2021|
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“The Ellis Island of Dayton”

Islom Shakhbandarov on Welcome Dayton and immigrant life in the city. ["Excerpted from The Dayton Anthology"]

Shannon Shelton Miller2020-12-14T12:54:06-05:00December 10, 2020|
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Top Stories of 2019

Ten stories our readers kept coming back to.

Belt Magazine2020-01-13T12:18:42-05:00December 27, 2019|
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A Love Letter to Dayton

"When I became editor-in-chief of the city’s alt weekly, Dayton City Paper, it became my job to know Dayton intimately."

Amanda Dee2019-08-20T10:59:01-04:00August 14, 2019|
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Power and Possibility in Dayton’s Oregon District

An elegy for a wounded place.

Paula D. Ashe2020-04-01T15:59:45-04:00August 9, 2019|
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Call for Submissions: Dayton Anthology

Announcing an anthology of stories from Dayton, Ohio, to be published by Belt Publishing.

Belt Publishing2019-08-21T11:32:13-04:00June 25, 2019|
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Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Dayton

Anne Trubek revives the ghost of writer Paul Laurence Dunbar and visits his childhood home in Dayton, Ohio.

Anne Trubek2014-03-28T09:59:37-04:00March 12, 2014|
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