Over a 50 year period, South Bend lost a quarter of its population while the country’s population rose by over 40%. How? Every neighborhood in the city lost people.
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Introducing an article and podcast series by Joe Molnar that will explore the process of how South Bend, which had grown for nearly its entire 120-year existence up to 1960, began a half century of decline.
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Chuck Fry, Ryan Blaske, and I are teaming up to tell stories about South Bend and we’re exploring a new membership model to do it.
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Indiana Avenue was once the commercial heart of South Bend’s old Hungarian neighborhood. Today, it is a one-sided string of storefronts looking out over a vast field, at once echoing our city’s complicated past and pointing to a new, hopeful, fragile future.
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Heather Smith is a farmer in South Bend. Today, she tells the story of Golden Hour Flower Farm, her 16-bed micro urban farm in the Monroe Park neighborhood.
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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 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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