After spending much of his life writing for The New Yorker in the Big Apple, renowned journalist and author Truman Capote made his way to small-town Holcomb, Kansas, to...
“I had not ridden the bus in over 30 years,” Janine Gwozdz, former election clerk at the Lucas County Board of Elections, said. “And literally, it took me three...
Edith Anisfield-Wolf, a Jewish poet and philanthropist based in Cleveland, founded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards out of a belief among Jewish communities called “tikkun olam,” which is Hebrew for...
News deserts, or areas without a reliable news outlet, are becoming increasingly common on a national scale. This could spell danger for rural communities in the Midwest.
Northwestern University’s The...
In a region rarely associated with Black history, a group of storytellers are working to bring to light the undertold narrative of the African American Midwest.
“So many people think,...
