Pro Basketball’s Rust Belt Roots
The Goodyear Wingfoots, General Electrics, and the heyday of industrial basketball.
Belt’s Top Stories of 2021
Ten pieces our readers kept coming back to.
Riding the Fort Wayne Line
A proposed Amtrak route would restore passenger service between Chicago, Fort Wayne, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. Can new federal investment make it happen?
Climate Emergency and Environmental Justice in the Rust Belt
Stories on climate change, industrial legacies, and planning for a just future.
Black Freedom, Black Joy: A Juneteenth Reading List
Honoring Black joy and freedom struggles in the Rust Belt.
Trouble
"The jukebox at Pizza King didn’t bump any songs past / 1978 but we fed it quarters anyway"
Protest and Power
Scenes from a moment of reckoning.
Mutual Aid in the Rust Belt
A developing list of coronavirus-related efforts in the region.
Traveling While Black
Learning the racial geography of Indiana as a young Black girl in the 1980s.
Call for Submissions: INseparable
In search of features, essays, and poems that engage with the relationships between rural, urban, and suburban places in Indiana.