Inside the Decades-Long Fight Over an Ohio Superfund Site
In Uniontown, Ohio, outside of Akron, residents and officials have clashed over cleanup of the Industrial Excess Landfill.
Climate Emergency and Environmental Justice in the Rust Belt
Stories on climate change, industrial legacies, and planning for a just future.
Fire in Steubenville
"Each time I come back home / something else has burned."
Black Freedom, Black Joy: A Juneteenth Reading List
Honoring Black joy and freedom struggles in the Rust Belt.
Rust Belt Pride
A queer Rust Belt reading list.
Madeline Davis’s Queer History of Buffalo
Davis, who died last month at the age of eighty, dedicated her life to LGBTQ+ history in Buffalo.
The Rubber Industry’s Toxic Legacy in Akron
The stories of workers and their families reveal "unintended consequences" for life and health in the community.
Midwestern
"I heard the dreams of a revisionist age, / the once upon a time / of a land strong in industry."
Belt’s Top Stories of 2020
Eleven pieces our readers kept coming back to.
meditations in the decline of western civilization
"this is how i ground myself. / i follow the writing on the wall."
The Best of Belt Magazine 2020
Announcing a new anthology of regional writing, available exclusively to Belt members.
The Rust Belt is Indigenous Land
A land acknowledgement, plus ten stories from the archives on Indigenous life in the region.