One year since the murder of Eric Logan and just weeks since the murder of George Floyd, our city is in the streets calling for justice. This week, we listen to these calls at the largest protest of the month in downtown South Bend.
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We could go up on the tracks? is one of my favorite texts to send. This is a short film of what happens next.
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A list of stories curated by Belt Magazine editor Ryan Schnurr on the long history of racism and police violence in the Midwest—and what to do about it.
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Today, local painter Alex Ann Allen announced a raffle for her new piece titled George Floyd, with 100% of the proceeds going to Black Lives Matter South Bend.
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This week we welcome our friend Chuck Fry to the podcast to discuss his road to South Bend, how he learned to tell stories with film, why he got out of bed to start creating things during quarantine, and the internal battles that come with being a full-time artist.
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Today, fourteen regional musicians worked with South Bend Venues Parks and Arts to release a new music video featuring an arrangement of the late Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me” with an original verse from Heyzeus, and production from Chuck Fry, Ryan Blaske, Eli Kahn, and Buddy Pearson.
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On this forty-fourth episode, we record remotely for the first time and are joined by Jason Miller, the founding pastor of South Bend City Church, for a long conversation about the state of belonging amid the pandemic.
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Yesterday I was live on Instagram with Jason Miller to talk about South Bend, creativity, and my new daily podcast.
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In a new episode of This Day in South Bend, we read a remarkable article in the April 23, 1927 evening edition of The Tribune in which a local attempts to sell South Bend to the people of America with a simple, yet profound, message: the people make the city.
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On July 25, 1945, the South Bend Tribune broke the news of a new freight terminal to be built on former Oliver Corporation land, citing it as the “first hint of an industrial building boom in South Bend.” The terminal still stands today—empty.
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