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  • Gonzalez - Dover, Ohio

After ICE

Life in a Guatemalan immigrant community in rural Ohio more than a year after nearby raids.

Joanna Bernstein2021-09-10T12:07:05-04:00January 22, 2020|
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  • Gary Indiana

Return to Boomtowns

"This is your Gary, where hands grab at homecoming:/brown soldiers, sizzling streets, airwaves thick from a Motor City."

Curtis Crisler2021-01-27T14:54:29-05:00January 17, 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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  • Shapiro's Deli - Indianapolis

Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays

The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side.

Susan B. Hyatt2020-04-30T14:12:51-04:00December 11, 2019|
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  • Detroit Redlining

Development in Black and White

An interview with Jason Hackworth, author of "Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt."

Annie Howard2021-05-12T13:54:39-04:00November 22, 2019|
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  • Shaull_Big Ole

The Legend of Big Ole

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.

Rachel Boyle2019-12-04T12:32:34-05:00November 14, 2019|
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  • Chicago 1919

Witness to History

Juanita Mitchell, now 107 years old, saw the 1919 Chicago Race Riots firsthand.

Elise Schimke2019-11-26T16:36:34-05:00November 8, 2019|
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  • Love - Lake County Fair

At the Lake County Fair

The fair connects communities that often seem worlds apart socially and politically, but are intimately linked by economics and geography.

Samuel Love2019-11-14T11:00:49-05:00October 31, 2019|
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  • Sarah-Ji - CTU Strike 1

“On Strike for Better Schools”

Photos from the Chicago Teachers Union strike.

Rebecca Burns2019-11-12T10:11:27-05:00October 25, 2019|
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  • Pittsburgh Civic Arena

Under the Big Dome

How the now-defunct Civic Arena buried Pittsburgh's "Little Harlem."

Dante A. Ciampaglia2019-10-31T10:20:14-04:00October 18, 2019|
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  • Social History of Indiana - 1

The Potential of Public Art

The work of public memory is not only about the past, but about a shared vision for the future.

Sean Starowitz2019-10-28T14:00:57-04:00October 4, 2019|
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  • Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook - Cover

How to Integrate a Chicago Neighborhood

In three (not so) easy steps.

Scott Smith2019-09-04T16:12:56-04:00August 29, 2019|
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