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 Jenny Casas to the podcast. Jenny is a reporter for New York Public Radio’s Narrative Unit who traveled to South Bend to reported on the story of Better Homes of South Bend: an early African American building co-op formed by Studebaker employees.
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This weekend, hundreds of people filled the streets of South Bend in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
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Since moving closer to South Bend, long walks are becoming a part of Ryan Blaske’s routine. Today he shares photographs and reflections from one such walk.
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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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