From Pretoria to Peoria
There’s a neologism that I’d propose for the often-radical international activism that comes from non-coastal college towns that are too often easily ignored – midwestern cosmopolitanism.
A History of the Pride Flag in My Doorway
Notes on living and moving as an out queer person in the Rust Belt.
Belt’s Top Stories of 2020
Eleven pieces our readers kept coming back to.
Cleveland Doesn’t Need Your Love—It Needs Your Fire
Commentary: A goodbye letter to the city.
Protest and Power
Scenes from a moment of reckoning.
Coming Into a Black Woman’s Anger
On Audre Lorde and Minnesota Nice.
Remembering the Kent State Shootings, Fifty Years Later
Survivor Chic Canfora reflects on life then and now.
Protesting ICE Immigration Raids in Chicago
Thousands gathered in Chicago's Daley Plaza to protest migrant imprisonment and planned ICE raids in major U.S. cities.
2014
"Yes, I have been here before / On the threshold of justice’s door / Half a century ago / In Selma, Oxford, / And Birmingham." [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]
Inside the St. Louis Rent Strike of 1969
“It touched everybody all over the country who lived in public housing.” [From "The St. Louis Anthology"]
Winona LaDuke’s Last Battle
The activist is leading the fight to transition away from a fossil fuel economy. Enbridge Line 3 stands in her way.